TY  - JOUR
T1  - Surgical Timing of Treating Injured Extremities
AU  - Crist, Brett D.
AU  - Ferguson, Tania
AU  - Murtha, Yvonne M.
AU  - Lee, Mark A.
Y1  - 2012/08/15
N1  - 10.2106/JBJS.L.00414
JO  - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
SP  - 1514
EP  - 1524
VL  - 94
IS  - 16
N2  - 
After more than a decade of conflicting publications as well as changes in institutional resources, surgeons rightly question the ideal timing of surgical intervention for various extremity injuries. Is this fracture a true emergency? Can it wait until tomorrow morning? Is definitive management best delayed to minimize further trauma to the patient’s physiology or soft tissues? And how does the availability of protected, daytime operating-room time influence these decisions? To address these questions, we evaluated the evidence regarding the optimal or critical time for surgical intervention in treating various extremity injuries and the influence of a designated orthopaedic trauma room on management strategies.

SN  - 0021-9355
M3  - doi: 10.2106/JBJS.L.00414
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.L.00414
ER  -