National Guideline Clearinghouse | Optimal timing of femur fracture stabilization in polytrauma patients: a practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

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National Guideline Clearinghouse | Optimal timing of femur fracture stabilization in polytrauma patients: a practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.



Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma

Guideline Title

Optimal timing of femur fracture stabilization in polytrauma patients: a practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

Bibliographic Source(s)

Gandhi RR, Overton TL, Haut ER, Lau B, Vallier HA, Rohs T, Hasenboehler E, Lee JK, Alley D, Watters J, Rogers FB, Shafi S. Optimal timing of femur fracture stabilization in polytrauma patients: a practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2014 Nov;77(5):787-95. [51 references]

Guideline Status

This is the current release of the guideline.

EAST Practice Management Guidelines Work Group. Practice management guidelines for the optimal timing of long bone fracture stabilization. Winston-Salem (NC): Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST); 2000. 39 p. [25 references]

This guideline meets NGC's 2013 (revised) inclusion criteria.