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Emergencies in Orthopedics

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This chapter deals with the all important emergencies in orthopedics which one may encounter anytime during one’s career and covers all essentials such as open fractures, details regarding compartment syndrome at all the levels of the human body, details regarding fasciotomy, brief description of dislocations and septic arthritis of the joints, and most important emergencies like the conus medullaris and cauda equina syndromes which are frequently overlooked.

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  1. Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

    K. Mohan Iyer

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  1. Formerly Locum Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Free Hampstead NHS trust, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

    K. Mohan Iyer

  2. Division of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK

    Wasim S. Khan

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Iyer, K.M. (2019). Emergencies in Orthopedics. In: Iyer, K., Khan, W. (eds) General Principles of Orthopedics and Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15089-1_23

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