title: Orthopaedic treatment of paediatric multiple trauma patients. A new technique.
abstract: In multiple trauma, skeletal injuries are generally responsible for long hospital stays, with concomitant nursing inconveniences and for most of the sequelae. A new operating technique has been perfected, especially adapted to paediatric traumatology: stable elastic rodding, precise and less aggressive technique. It avoids plastering and traction systems, and rapidly restores sufficient independence for a return to school. It is especially useful in multiple trauma patients, where nursing facilities and easy transport may be very helpful. The hospital regularly uses this technique for patients over six years old with femur fractures, tibia fractures associated with a contralateral lower limb injury, and forearm fractures where conservative treatment has failed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Queen Fabiola University Children's Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Verstreken
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Delronge
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lamoureux
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D005594:Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D013978:Tibial Fractures / Q000601:surgery*