Session IV - Polytrauma Friday, October 9, 1998

Moderator: Steven A. Olson, MD
8:00 a.m. *External Femoral Fixation of Unstable Blunt Polytrauma Patients

Barry L. Riemer, MD, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA

8:06 a.m. Conversion of External Fixation to Intramedullary Nailing for Femoral Shaft Fractures in Polytrauma Patients

Peter J. Nowotarski, MD, University of Tennessee; Clifford H. Turen, MD; Robert J. Brumback, MD; J. Mark Scarboro, BA, Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, MD

8:20 a.m. Evaluation of Standard Surgical Preparation Performed on Superficial Dermal Abrasions

Kyle J. Jeray, MD; David M. Banks, MD; Laura Senunas Phieffer, MD; Michael D. Hudson, PhD; Michael J. Bosse, MD, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC

8:26 a.m. Doppler Arterial Pressure Measurements Reliably Exclude Occult Arterial Injury in Blunt Extremity Trauma

Peter A. Cole, MD; Robert Campbell, MD; Marc F. Swiontkowski, MD; Kaj H. Johansen, MD, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA