Session VII - Pelvis and Acetabulum Sunday, October 19, 1997

Moderator: David L. Helfet, MD
8:00 a.m. Irreducible Fracture-Dislocation of the Hip: A Severe Injury with a Poor Prognosis

Michael D. McKee, MD, FRCS(C), Michael E. Garay, Research Assistant, Emil H. Schemitsch, MD, FRCS(C), David J. G. Stephen, BSc, MD, FRCS(C), Hans J. Kreder, MD, FRCS(C)

St. Michael's Hospital and the Sunnybrook Health Science Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

8:07 a.m. Nonoperative Management of Acetabular Fractures: The Use of Dynamic lntraoperative Stress Views

Paul Tornetta, III, MD

University Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, USA

8:14 a.m. The Effects of Transverse, Anterior Column and Posterior Column Acetabular Fractures on the Stability of the Hip Joint

Mark S. Vrahas, MD, Kirstin K. Widding, MS, Kevin A Thomas, PhD

Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

8:21 a.m. Discussion - Berton R. Moed, MD
8:32 a.m. Pelvic Fracture Patterns and Their Corresponding Angiographic Sources of Hemorrhage

Christopher M. Metz, MD, David J. Hak, MD, James A. Goulet, MD, David Williams, MD

Taubman Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

8:39 a.m. Pelvic Ring Injury and Associated Urologic Trauma: Results of Multicenter Study

Fred Draijer, MD, Heinz-Jürgen Egbers, MD, Dieter Havemann, MD

Hospital of Accident Surgery, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

8:45 a.m. Pressure-Volume Characteristics of the Intact and Disrupted Pelvic Retroperitoneum

Kevin A. Thomas, PhD, Mark S. Vrahas, MD, Matthew R. Grimm, MD

Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

8:55 a.m. Discussion - Clifford H.Turen, MD
9:01 a.m. Neurologic Outcomes of Sacral Fractures: Is Decompression Beneficial?

Gary S. Gruen, MD, Steven R. Speth, MD, Timothy J. Hunt, MD, Gregory Bijak, BSE, Bruce H. Ziran, MD

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

9:08 a.m. The Correlation between Early Radiographic Results and Long-Term Clinical Outcome following Fracture of the Acetabulum

Mark C. Reilly, MD, Joel M. Matta, MD

Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA

9:15 a.m. Discussion - Milton L. Routt Jr., MD