Table 1.
Criteria, which have been recommended by various authors in order to define patients in whom early definitive osteosynthesis might be disadvantageous: Variables not validated.
| Author (year)[Reference] | Suggested dependent variable |
| Trentz (1978) [10] | Cardiopulmonary, coagulation and metabolic criteria |
| Sturm (1984) [11] | Thoracic trauma |
| Seibel (1985) [12] | Oxygen transport, coagulation |
| Burchardi (1990) [13] | Circulation, coagulation |
| Van Os (1994) [14] | Cardiovascular condition |
| Reynolds (1995) [15] | Resuscitation, additional injuries (head, chest, pelvic fracture), delay |
| Friedl (1996) [16] | ISS |
| Scalea (2000) [17] | Physiology, additional injuries (head, thorax, abdomen) |
| Rixen (2001) [24] | Prognostic factors: Age, ISS, GCS, BE, coagulation |
| Pape (2001) [18] | ISS, additional injuries (thorax, abdomen, pelvis), cardiopulmonary criteria, coagulation, temperature, IL-6, „borderline patients“ |
| Kutscha-Lissberg (2001) [19] | Circulation, volume loss, coagulation |
| Brundage (2002) [20] | Hemodynamics, preoperative resuscitation |
ISS: Injury Severity Score; GCS: Glasgow Coma Scale; BE: Base Excess; IL-6: Interleukin 6