title: Soft tissue complications of orthopedic emergencies.
abstract: The emergency physician encounters a diversity of potentially devastating and disabling soft tissue maladies. This article reviews the literature and approach to the compartment syndrome and Volkmann contracture, reflex sympathetic dystrophy and causalgia, fracture blisters, and gas gangrene.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, California, USA.
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Hoover
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Siefert
mesh_terms: D003161:Compartment Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000150:complications*; D005738:Gas Gangrene / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009985:Orthopedics; D012019:Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy