title: Towards evidence-based emergency medicine: Best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary. BET 2: Stabilisation of pelvic fractures.
abstract: A short-cut review was carried out to establish whether pelvic immobilisation with a T-POD, or similar device, or pelvic immobilisation with a wrapped sheet is better at fracture stabilisation. Three papers were relevant to the question. The author, date and country of publication, patient group studied, study type, relevant outcomes, results and study weaknesses of these papers are shown in table 2. The clinical bottom line is that these devices/techniques do reduce and stabilise some fractures, whether one device is better than another is unclear.
authors.affiliation: St5 Emergency Medicine, Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, UK.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Clarke
mesh_terms: D055416:Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007103:Immobilization / Q000379:methods*