RT Journal
A1 WARBASSE JP
T1 THe treatment of fractures; some practical points
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD March 13
VO LII
IS 11
SP 857
OP 860
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.25420370015002d
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420370015002d
AB The most important step in the treatment of fractures is that the surgeon shall have made a diagnosis of the condition which he is about to treat. To undertake the treatment without an adequate picture in one's mind of the bony lesion present detracts materially from the satisfaction in one's work and conduces sometimes to poor results, on the one hand, or to unnecessary confinement of the patient, on the other. So important is this that when the surgeon is not able to satisfy himself as to the full character of the injury by means of the ordinary methods of examination, the two artificial diagnostic aids should be called on, and either general anesthesia or the x-ray employed.Still, the old and simple methods of diagnosis are of the greatest value. In many of our hospitals young men are subjecting all their fractures to the x-ray for diagnosis.