The Rationale of Operative Fracture Care

As Professor Muller predicted in the foreword to the first stable and relatively stable fixation and their respective edition, our book, which dealt with the challenging sub indications, as well as the new implants such as the low ject of surgical indications, rapidly filled the void left by contact plates, the first and second generation reamed the AO Manual which discussed mainly the surgical intramedullary nails and the new unreamed nails for the techniques of internal fixation and the associated instru tibia and femur as well as the new designs of external fix ments and implants. Thus, the Rationale of Operative ateurs, are critically discussed in the appropriate seg Fracture Care, in dealing critically with the issues of sur ments of the book. gical indications in addition to many other important The second edition has also been greatly expanded in aspects of fracture treatment, quickly became the stan its scope. Voids which were left in the first edition have dard reference for those involved in the treatment of been carefully filled in the second. We have turned to our musculoskeletal trauma - resident and practicing sur colleagues and close collaborators at Sunnybrook Health geon alike. Science Centre to provide us with chapters which were Eight years have passed since the publication of the omitted from the first edition. Thus T. Axelrod has writ first edition. During this time many changes have ten the chapter on the wrist, R.