Prevention and treatment of syndrome of posttraumatic fat emboly

Ataev Alevdin R., Gasanov Abdurahman I., Ataev Eldar A., Kallaev Najmudin O.

A retrospective analysis of 496 patients with polytrauma treated in the Republican orthopedic and traumatological center from 2007 to 2011 was conducted. In 22 (4.4%) patients developed a syndrome of fat embolism, of which 5 (22.7%) died. The authors developed and applied in the clinic "Method of prevention of fat embolism syndrome in victims with polytrauma in fractures of long tubular bones", patent of the Russian Federation No. 8620858. The proposed method was applied in 120 patients with polytrauma in order to prevent the development of fat embolism, only in 3 patients the manifestation o of fat Embolisms in the appearance of short-term petechial rashes.

Keywords:fat embolism syndrome, prevention, sequential osteosynthesis, mexidol