Damage control does not offer a survival advantage and increases the risk of serious complications compared with early total care in severely injured patients with femoral shaft fractures

Bruno C. Coimbra; Junsik Kwon; Bishoy Zakhary; Babak Sarani; Matthew Firek; Timothy Allison-Aipa; Raul Coimbra

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Damage control does not offer a survival advantage and increases the risk of serious complications compared with early total care in severely injured patients with femoral shaft fractures

Bruno C. Coimbra
, Junsik Kwon
, Bishoy Zakhary
, Babak Sarani
, Matthew Firek
, Timothy Allison-Aipa
, Raul Coimbra

Surgery

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	907-914
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Volume	98
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0000000000004594
State	Published - Jun 2025

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Surgery
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

Keywords

Damage control orthopedics
early total care
femoral shaft fracture
outcomes
polytrauma
Humans
Middle Aged
Respiratory Distress Syndrome/epidemiology
Male
Fracture Fixation/methods
Injury Severity Score
Sepsis/epidemiology
Postoperative Complications/epidemiology
Female
Adult
Femoral Fractures/surgery
Retrospective Studies
Acute Kidney Injury/epidemiology
Aged

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Coimbra, B. C., Kwon, J., Zakhary, B., Sarani, B., Firek, M., Allison-Aipa, T., & Coimbra, R. (2025). Damage control does not offer a survival advantage and increases the risk of serious complications compared with early total care in severely injured patients with femoral shaft fractures. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 98(6), 907-914. https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0000000000004594

Damage control does not offer a survival advantage and increases the risk of serious complications compared with early total care in severely injured patients with femoral shaft fractures. / Coimbra, Bruno C.; Kwon, Junsik; Zakhary, Bishoy et al.
In: Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Vol. 98, No. 6, 06.2025, p. 907-914.

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Coimbra, BC, Kwon, J, Zakhary, B, Sarani, B, Firek, M, Allison-Aipa, T & Coimbra, R 2025, 'Damage control does not offer a survival advantage and increases the risk of serious complications compared with early total care in severely injured patients with femoral shaft fractures', Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, vol. 98, no. 6, pp. 907-914. https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0000000000004594

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