title: [Change in external fixator and when in multiple trauma patients].
abstract: External fixation of fractures in polytraumatized patients normally should be regarded as temporary. After the patient's general condition is stabilized, in most cases it is necessary to change the procedure in order to provide sufficient mobility of joints, timely bony healing and early mobilisation. The earlier the transition toward internal osteosynthesis, the lower the complication rate. The follow up of 37 polytraumatized patients who were subjected to 50 changes of method after primary external fixation is described.
authors.affiliation: Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik, Tübingen.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Weise
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Karnatz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016267:External Fixators; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology
vernacular_title: Umsteigen vom Fixateur externe und wann beim Polytraumatisierten.