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The damage control (DCO) approach to the injured limb requires the application of damage control orthopedic principles to an extremity. Like the overall DCO approach to the polytrauma patient, limb damage control corrects local metabolic disturbances (e.g., acidosis, contamination, etc.), corrects local hypothermia (e.g., warming the limb, ensuring adequate perfusion, etc.), and reverses coagulopathy (e.g., controlling profound bleeding, etc.). Along with fixing local metabolic disturbances, controlling bleeding, and ensuring adequate perfusion, provisional skeletal stability with external fixation is achieved.
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Yakkanti, M., Mauffrey, C., Roberts, C.S. (2012). Limb Damage Control Orthopedics. In: Seligson, D., Mauffrey, C., Roberts, C. (eds) External Fixation in Orthopedic Traumatology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2197-8_2
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