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Dillingham TR, Pezzin LE, MacKenzie EJ, Burgess AR: Use and satisfaction with prosthetic devices among persons with trauma-related amputations: a long-term outcome study. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2001; 80: 563–571.

Objective

To document and examine the use, satisfaction, and problems with prosthetic devices among persons who suffered a trauma-related lower limb amputation.

Design

Abstracted medical records and follow-up interview data were collected for a retrospective cohort of persons with a lower limb trauma-related amputation who received their acute care at the University of Maryland R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, MD, between 1984 and 1994. Patients with spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, or only toe amputations were excluded.

Results

There were 146 patients identified. Of those, 9% died during the acute admission and 3.5% died after discharge. Seventy-eight …