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Limb Salvage: Lower Extremity

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Extremity damage in disaster as well as combat situation, particularly of the lower limb, is typically a high-energy trauma with open injury [1, 2]. These dramatic conditions confront surgeons among others with significant human and ethical problems [3]. Hereby treatment of severely injured limbs challenges orthopedic surgeons [4]. It is important that in these extreme situations, only surgical specialists and senior trainees should be deployed and not be used as a training field for junior residents [5].

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Wozasek, G.E., Zak, L. (2016). Limb Salvage: Lower Extremity. In: Wolfson, N., Lerner, A., Roshal, L. (eds) Orthopedics in Disasters. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48950-5_29

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