[External fixation of wood as an example of an adapted technic].

Abstract

Logistic reasons gave rise to construction, production and application of an external fixation made of the wood of the rubber-tree (ficus elastica) during the treatment of Cambodian war-injured patients at the field hospital of Khao I Dang. Round pieces of wood 1.5 cm respectively 2 cm in diameter, with drill-holes (diameter 3.2 mm) for the "Steinmann"-nails were planed from well-seasoned planks of the Jang-tree. For the treatment of 25 open fractures - the wooden fixation proved to be the best solution.

• Authors: B Domres, T Klöss
• Journal: Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie (Langenbecks Arch Chir) Vol. 364 Pg. 331-4 ( 1984) ISSN: 0023-8236 [Print] Germany
• Vernacular Title: Fixateur externe aus Holz als Beispiel angepasster Technik.
• PMID: 6503538 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Developing Countries
• Fracture Fixation (instrumentation)
• Fractures, Open (surgery)
• Humans
• Wood
• Wound Healing