[Treatment of hand injuries on the principle of "delayed emergency"].

A certain number of drunk patients who suffered hand injury were not prone to operation on the day of admission, as usual, for different reasons (behaviour of the patient etc.). These patients were treated on the delayed urgency principle, that Iselin worked out. Results in the 266 cases were surprisingly good. There were much less complications with this method, compared to previous results achieved when primary treatment of wounds was practised. Yet more experience is necessary, to work out certain details and more exact indications, the authors state.