**Meet the editors**

Dr. Ozgur Karcioglu commenced his residency in Dokuz Eylul University Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, and graduated in 1998. He served as the chairman of the department from 2005 to 2007. He completed the "International Emergency Medicine" Fellowship in PSU in 2005.

Dr. Karcioglu served as a founder and board member of the Emergency Medical Association of Turkey after 1995. He has had more than 100 articles published in scientific journals, contributed to 3 books as editor, and authored 33 chapters. He is a member of the editorial and review boards of a number of journals and an instructor of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course. His research interests are resuscitation, advanced life support, pain, disasters, trauma, and toxicology.

Prof. Dr. Hakan Topacoglu completed the emergency medicine residency program at Dokuz Eylul University Medical School in 2002, where he served as an assistant professor from 2002 to 2007 and an associate professor from 2007 to 2010. During this period, he worked as a member of many boards of the university. In addition, he served as a manager of the Centre of the Emergency

Medicine and Disaster Training from 2008 to 2010. He is currently working as a professor doctor at the university hospital in Duzce. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, which have been cited over 400 times and he presented more than 80 abstracts at national and international symposia. His H index is currently 11, i10 index is 13, and RG score is 27,3. He is a Board member of the Emergency Medical Association of Turkey and he contributed as an editor in two books.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Fractures and Related injuries 1**

Chapter 2 **Management of Open Fracture 23**

Mohammad Esmaeelinejad

**Section 2 Thoracoabdominal Injuries 73**

Chapter 5 **Abdominal Trauma 75** Göksu Afacan

Turkan Dubus

Chapter 7 **Geriatric Trauma 115** Banu Arslan

**Section 3 Injuries in the Extreme Ages 113**

Grzegorz Szczęsny

**Fracture 41**

Ayyub

Chapter 1 **Fracture Repair: Its Pathomechanism and Disturbances 3**

Ramón Caeiro-Rey and Jesús Pino-Mínguez

Chapter 3 **Clinical and Radiological Assessment of Acetabular**

Chapter 4 **Maxillofacial Fractures: From Diagnosis to Treatment 53**

Chapter 6 **Emergency and Current Approaches to Thoracic Traumas 95**

Alberto Jorge-Mora, Samer Amhaz-Escanlar, Iván Couto González, Cristina López-Del Teso, Rodolfo Gómez, Teresa Jorge-Mora, José

Balaji Zacharia, Dhiyaneswaran Subramaniyam and Muhammed
