A 42-year-old woman was involved in a motorcycle crash and sustained a type II open, right distal-third tibia and fibula fractures (Figure 1).The patient was appropriately resuscitated, given IV ...

Edale Mountain Rescue were called to assist an injured woman walking down the Grindsbrook in the Peak District shortly before ...

A longer course of antibiotics may not be associated with improved rates of surgery-free survival in patients with infection after fracture fixation, according to recently presented data. “In ...

The length of antibiotic treatment depends on the severity of infection and how well the patient is responding, but 4-6 weeks of intravenous antibiotics followed by oral antibiotics for another ...

The results suggesting health care practitioners can select either aqueous-based antisepsis solution when treating open fractures on the basis of solution availability, patient contraindications ...

WVU researchers are working to possibly reduce antibiotic-resistant infections in open bone fractures by employing nanotechnology, with the support of a $1.9 million National Institutes of Health ...

Antibiotic Prophylaxis: Administration of antibiotics before or during treatment to prevent subsequent infections. Mandibular Fracture: A break in the lower jawbone, typically resulting from blunt ...