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East Practice Management Guidelines Work Group: update to practice management guidelines for prophylactic antibiotic use in open fractures.

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Practice management guidelines for the management of mild traumatic brain injury: the EAST practice management guidelines work group.

Practice management guidelines for the optimal timing of long-bone fracture stabilization in polytrauma patients: the EAST Practice Management Guidelines Work Group.

EAST PRACTICE MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES East Practice Management Guidelines Work Group: Update to Practice Management Guidelines for Prophylactic Antibiotic Use in Open Fractures

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM An open fracture is defined as one in which the fracture fragments communicate with the environment through a break in the skin. The presence of an open fracture either isolated or as part of a multiple injury complex increases the risk of infection and soft tissue complications. In 1976, Gustilo and Anderson1 described a system to classify open fractures based on the s...