Given the current tempo of overseas contingency operations, military orthopaedic surgeons are increasingly performing their duties in an austere environment. At Level 1 trauma centers and combat support hospitals, resources tend to be more abundant than in less "metropolitan'' locations. Combat casualty care has reinforced the idea of a multidisciplinary team approach to severely injured trauma...

Road trauma is an emergent global issue. There is huge disparity between the population affected by road trauma and the resource allocation. If the current trend continues, a predicted extra 5 million lives will be lost in this decade. This article aims to create an awareness of the scale of the problem of road trauma and the inequality in the resources available to address this problem. It als...

a b s t r a c t mortality and morbidity from trauma continues to be a serious, ubiquitous public health problem. our short communication reports on the benefits of a dedicated lower limb trauma coordinator (lltc) to the trauma service of a busy inner-london plastics unit. this is based on a retrospective case-note based audit; performed 19 months prior to the introduction of the lltc and for 16...

The management of multiply injured or severely patients is a complex and dynamic process. Timely safe fracture fixation critical component the multidisciplinary care that these require. Effective patients, their orthopaedic injuries, requires strong understanding pathophysiology response to trauma indicators patient status, as well an appreciation for nature parameters. Substantial progress in ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this systematic literature review was to assess the clinical level of evidence of commercially available demineralised bone matrix (DBM) products for their use in trauma and orthopaedic related surgery. METHODS A total of 17 DBM products were used as search terms in two available databases: Embase and PubMed according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Revie...

s of these 307 studies were reviewed in duplicate for final inclusion by one of us (P.A.C.). After abstract selection, 136 articles were divided among all authors according to their specialty focus for critical review. Thirty-eight manuscripts were discarded, leaving ninety-eight studies for final inclusion in this update. Consensus on the final studies was achieved. In this review, we summariz...