The management of polytrauma patients is clinically challenging and requires a multi-disciplinary team approach. The immediate and definitive operative care of fractures represents the optimal treatment for polytrauma patients with orthopedic injuries. Early orthopedic intervention in long bone fractures and pelvic ring injuries has been shown to decrease pulmonary complications, improve hemody...

This paper presents preliminary results of segmental angular momenta analysis in human walking subjected to lateral pelvic perturbations. The results show that angular momenta of specific segments, right upper leg and right foot in the study, were mostly affected by the applied perturbations. This finding will be further utilized to develop a perturbation detection method for monitoring stabili...

The pelvic floor functions as a holistic entity. organs, bladder, bowel, smooth and striated muscles, nerves, ligaments other connective tissues are directed cortically reflexly from various levels of the nervous system. Such integration is essential for system’s multiple functions, example, girdle stability, continence, voiding/defecation, sexuality. Pelvic dysfunction (PFD) related to variety...

Spontaneous haemoperitoneum during pregnancy is a rare but potentially catastrophic cause of acute abdominal pain. A healthy 37-year-old primigravida presented with acute abdominal pain and hypovolaemic shock at 37-weeks gestation. An emergency caesarean section was indicated on the clinical suspicion of placental abruption. However, an ultrasound scan confirmed the absence of a fetal heartbeat...

We studied a series of fifteen consecutive subtrochanteric fractures treated in a long quadrilateral cast-brace with a pelvic band. Patients with severely comminuted fractures in which stability cannot be obtained by internal fixation, as well as those with open fractures, are considered candidates for such treatment. Treatment with preliminary traction followed by a ambulatory cast-brace with ...

We prospectively studied the outcome of a protocol of prophylaxis for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in 103 consecutive patients undergoing surgical stabilisation of pelvic and acetabular fractures. Low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) was administered within 24 hours of injury or on achieving haemodynamic stability. Patients were screened for proximal DVT by duplex ultrasonography performed ten to ...

BACKGROUND Spinopelvic reconstruction after sacrectomy for a sacropelvic tumor can result in various complications and requires a highly complicated surgical technique. We report 2 cases of pelvic reconstruction surgery using diverse U-shaped rods (USRs) after partial sacrectomy. CASE DESCRIPTION A partial sacrectomy was performed for 2 different cases: one case was a metastatic sacral tumor ...

The article represents a retrospective clinical and radiological study. Objective. To assess the safety and the stability in time of the Unit Rod instrumentation in the treatment of severe neuromuscular scoliosis in children and adolescents. Summary. The treatment of patients with neuromuscular scoliosis always represents a challenge. The patients are debilitated and usual interventions are ver...