Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift
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The aim of this study was to evaluate forearm and hand injuries in multitrauma patients and to compare this group of patients to the overall multitrauma population. ⋯ Multiple trauma patients with hand- and forearm injuries showed a statistically significant decreased injury severity and were younger compared to the overall multitrauma population.
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Wien Med Wochenschr · May 2005
[Perioperative pain management at the department of orthopaedic surgery of the Vienna Medical School].
Surgical treatment in the skeleton region and its adjacent tissue causes severe pain, demonstrated by the high demand of anaesthetics in the early postoperative phase. In order to offer adequate and individually adapted pain management, the orthopaedic department is working closely with the departments of anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine of the Vienna Medical University at the Vienna's General Hospital. ⋯ The surgical spectrum of the orthopaedic department consists of general orthopaedic, paediatric-orthopaedic-, sport- and rheuma-orthopaedic, tumour and spine interventions. The purpose of this review is to describe the cooperation between orthopaedic surgeons and anaesthetists at the Vienna Medical University.