Session VIII - Polytrauma Friday, October 19, 2000

Moderator: M. Bradford Henley, MD. MBA & Gary S. Gruen, MD
4:29 PM The New Injury Severity Score is a Better Predictor of Extended Hospitalization and ICU Admission than the ISS for Polytrauma Patients with Multiple Orthopaedic Injuries

Zsolt J. Balogh, MD; Endre Varga, MD, PhD; János Tomka, MD; Gábor Süveges, MD; László Tóth, MD; János A. Simonka, MD, PhD, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

4:35 PM The Accuracy of Multiple-Procedure Reimbursement in Orthopaedic Trauma

William R. Creevy, MD; Paul Tornetta, III, MD; Scott Dhupar, MD, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA

4:41 PM *Reconstruction or Amputation of Lower Limb-Threatening Injury: Two-Year Clinical and Functional Outcomes at Level-1 Trauma Centers

Michael J. Bosse, MD; Ellen MacKenzie, PhD; James F. Kellam, MD; Andrew Burgess, MD; Lawrence Webb, MD; Marc Swiontkowski, MD; Roy Sanders, MD; A. Jones, MD; Mark McAndrew, MD; Brendan Patterson, MD; Melissa L. McCarthy, ScD; Thomas Travison; Renan C. Castillo, MS, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC (all authors ­ a-NIH-NIAMS)

4:58 PM Osseous Healing with Allograft and Demineralized Bone Matrix (DBM): The Adverse Effects of Smoking

Bruce H. Ziran, MD; Pooneh Hendi, MD; Kenneth Westerheide, MD; Wade R. Smith, MD; L. Caton, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

5:04 PM *The Effects of Chronic Nicotine Exposure on Bone Blood Flow

Jeremy Feitelson, MS; Galia Soukhova O'Hare, PhD; X. Li, PhD; Craig S. Roberts, MD; John Fleming, PhD, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Louisville, KY (all authors ­ a-Fisher-Owen Orthopaedic Fund/EBI)