Fractures and Trauma Care

If you suffer a serious fracture or traumatic injuries, you can count on our orthopedic surgeons, specially educated in trauma care.

Orthopedic surgeons with fellowship training in trauma care are part of surgical teams at our Level 1 Trauma Center. They are specially educated to respond to emergencies, repairing fractures and other traumatic injuries with advanced surgical techniques.

They care for the most serious traumatic accidents, including motor vehicle accidents, work-related accidents and falls. They perform bone reconstruction and complex surgeries to repair:

Fractures that cross from a bone into the surface of the joint, called intraarticular fractures
Fractures of the acetabular and other bones of the pelvis
Fractures of the long bones in the arms and legs
Fractures with significant soft tissue injury
Fractures of the femur bone in the leg that require intramedullary rod fixation

They also are skilled at treating complications or continuing problems from previous trauma (including nonunion, malunions, infections, post-traumatic arthritis and leg length discrepancies). Care and long-term follow-up is often coordinated with surgeons from other specialties.

This page last updated 2/12/08 04:08 PM

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