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LIEUT. COL. CHARLES R. W. REED, MC

AMA Arch Surg. 1957;75(5):736-738.

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Most characteristic of major injury in this area is immediate, total disability. Weight-bearing cannot be tolerated, and the body weight must be distributed over a wide surface to diminish pain. The patient, therefore, remains where he has fallen. Displaced pelvic fractures produce immediate, steady bleeding into paramuscular and retroperitoneal spaces. In a few minutes 500-1000 cc. of blood is lost from the circulation. Rapid (careless or inexperienced), painful handling or a fast, swaying automobile or ambulance ride may easily precipitate combined traumatic and hemorrhagic shock. The patient can be moved supine in a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
U. S. Army

Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 23, 1957.

Read at the Tripler Army Hospital Symposium on Surgery in Acute Trauma, Honolulu, April 1-5, 1957.

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