BDS · Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery · TOPIC 13 Maxillofacial Trauma & Fracture Management From the airway in the casualty bay to a plate on Champy's line — the staged approach that gets a fractured face back to function and aesthetics A fractured face is rarely just a fractured face. The maxillofacial skeleton sits on the airway, a few millimetres from the brain and the cervical cord, and arrives at the casualty bay with a patient who may also be hypovolaemic, intoxicated, or unconscious. The single most important shift in modern OMFS trauma care is sequencing — ATLS first, fractu…
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