[Outpatient management of lower extremity fractures (author's transl)]

Although a large part of patients are hospitalized and treated operatively by modern traumatology, the absolute majority of bone fractures -- including the lower extremity -- are still managed on an outpatient basis. In this respect, they have to be strictly specified according to concomitant injuries, localization, type of fracture, possibilities of transportation and rehabilitation. Treated -- reposition and fixed -- fractures of the lower extremity require to be checked repeatedly with the rehabilitation exercise also being systematically controlled. Special demands are made concerning anaesthesia. Strict selection has to be observed in leg fractures. On an outpatient basis they can be managed in a plaster bandage.