Notice: Users may be experiencing issues with displaying some pages on stanfordhealthcare.org. We are working closely with our technical teams to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience.
 

Learn about the flu shot, COVID-19 vaccine, and our masking policy »

Stanford Health Care

Reamed Intramedullary Nailing of a Femur Fracture in a Polytraumatized Patient on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Case Report. JBJS case connector Bosch, L., Ruoss, S., Bishop, J. 2020; 10 (1): e0349

Abstract

CASE: We present the case of a young adult with blunt lung trauma and acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) after a motor vehicle crash with a concomitant diaphyseal femur fracture who underwent reamed intramedullary nailing (IMN) while on ECMO support.CONCLUSION: This case is important because it demonstrates that reamed IMN of the femur has been performed safely in a critically ill patient on ECMO.

View details for DOI 10.2106/JBJS.CC.19.00349

View details for PubMedID 32044786