A Comprehensive Overview of Techniques for Cast, Splint, and Support Bandage Applications
Summary
The Guidelines section explores nonoperative treatment for fractures, ligament, nerve, and soft-tissue injuries, overload injuries, and infections, in the upper and lower extremities and the spine Finally, the Techniques section provides step-by-step descriptions on 55 individual cast, splint, orthosis, and bandaging techniques, presented in high quality online video and as stills with explanatory captions Dresing/Trafton Casts, Splints, and Support Bandages Thieme Publishers, New York/Stuttgart.2014 652 pp, 2,497 illustrations; Hardback ISBN: 9783131753410 eBook - Available from ebookstore.thieme.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iTunes eISBN: 9783131753519 €159.99/$199.99 Editors’ affiliations Klaus Dresing, MD, Chief Consultant, Department of Trauma Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Medicine, Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany.Peter G Trafton, MD, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.New York, NY, January 25, 2015 --( PR.com )-- "Casts, Splints, and Support Bandages: Nonoperative Treatment and Perioperative Protection," recently published by Thieme and the AO Foundation, provides an extensive overview of the history, principles, methods, and techniques for applying a modern plaster or synthetic cast.“The authors are to be congratulated for the very detailed presentation of the various techniques by two masters in casting, which is most helpful especially for all those that have not had the chance to learn the special ‘art of casting’ with its many important tricks and hints.2014652 pp, 2,497 illustrations; HardbackISBN: 9783131753410eBook - Available from ebookstore.thieme.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iTuneseISBN: 9783131753519€159.99/$199.99Editors’ affiliationsKlaus Dresing, MD, Chief Consultant, Department of Trauma Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Medicine, Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany.Peter G Trafton, MD, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.About ThiemeThieme Publishing Group is a medical and scientific publishing house employing more than 900 staff and maintaining offices in seven cities, including New York, Delhi, Rio and Stuttgart, Germany.