Respiratory changes after fractures and surgical skeletal injury.
A study of respiratory function was conducted in a group of patients with fractures and in a group of those on whom total hip arthroplasty had been carried out. This study has particular relevance to 'fat embolism syndrome', the common occurrence of subclinical hypoxaemia after fractures and the symptom-free period of a day or two preceding the onset of the clinical effects of fat embolism. As far as is known, this important early period has not hitherto been studied with modern respiratory physiological methods.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004620:Embolism, Fat / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D010313:Partial Pressure; D012119:Respiration; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests
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