Therapie von Frakturen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen
Although the significant healing potential of bony injuries in the case of fractures during the growth period favours conservative treatment, therapy concepts involving long-term immobilization or even hospitalization have been abandoned as non-child-friendly approaches. This is all the more the case given that surgical treatment of humeral shaft long bone fractures can be treated with a very low complication rate. As part of the sixth main topic of the 33rd Trauma Medicine Conference in Baden-Baden (Germany), the remaining indications for conservative therapy of fractures in children and adolescents were discussed, among other subjects. The present article provides an overview of the relevant lectures and the discussion which followed them.