Evaluation of Pelvic Ring Fractures that could not be Saved

Pelvic ring fractures: should they be fixed?

The management of traumatic disruption of the pelvic ring has become a focus of interest, the main question being whether such disruptions should be stabilised at operation. Stabilisation may be important for the survival of the patient, as has been suggested for femoral fractures, and it may also be desirable to improve the long-term functional results of such injuries. It is therefore necessa...

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Surgical treatment of pelvic ring fractures

Unstable pelvic ring disruptions result from high energy trauma and often are associated with multiple concomitant injuries (1–3). Hemorrhage, head injury, pelvic soft tissue trauma (open fractures), and primary system complications are responsible for high mortality rates (4–6). If the patient is hemodynamically unstable the primary goals are to control airways, to establish adequate ventilati...

Epidemiology of pelvic ring fractures and injuries☆

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the pelvic ring fractures and injuries in patients admitted to and treated at this ward between August, 2012 and January, 2014. METHODS 66 patients were submitted to treatment protocols according to their age, gender, skin color, injury mechanism, location of the trauma, classification of their injuries, emergency intervention, associated injuries, injured side ...