Abstract

Patients with the fat embolism syndrome are reported to have a severe course, with mortality as high as 15 percent. Recent studies have attributed improved prognosis to one or another treatment modality. We reviewed the 54 patients with clinical evidence of the posttraumatic fat embolism syndrome documented at the Foothills Hospital from 1968 to 1977. The criteria for diagnosis were fever (54/54), hypoxemia (52/52), diffuse pulmonary infiltrates

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