Skeletal surveys lack efficacy in obtunded polytrauma patients.

Objectives: To evaluate if a skeletal survey protocol initiated after 48 hours of intubation will decrease time to diagnosis and the treatment of occult fractures in the obtunded polytrauma patient.

Design: Prospective cohort trial with a retrospective cohort comparison arm.

Setting: A single level 1 trauma center.

Radiographic predictors of compartment syndrome in tibial plateau fractures.

Objectives: The purpose of this article was to evaluate the relationship of radiographic features of tibial plateau fractures to the development of compartment syndrome. We hypothesized that the direction and degree of initial displacement of the femur on the tibia, and the amount of tibial widening (TW), were correlated with the development of compartment syndrome.

Design: Retrospective case-control study.