[Current problems in the treatment of open fractures]

The paper evidently does not discuss several important problems of the management of open fractures, but it is confined to the exposition of some fundamental rules of their traitment. Nowadays, the treatment of open fractures is to be decided individually for all cases. A great number of patients with open fracture owe their recovery to the proper first aid care at scence of accident. This is also in respect of the further treatment in the hospital of great importance. Exagerated activity is usually superfluous in the treatment of open fractures. Less and more proper management is often more useful for the injured patient.