Orthopaedic Surgery
Prophylactic Antibiotics in Orthopaedic Surgery: Guidelines and Practice
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Feasibility of individual patient data meta-analyses in orthopaedic surgery
... Methods: We performed a literature search to identify relevant research questions in orthopaedic surgery. For each question, we developed a protocol synopsis for an IPD meta-analysis and identified all ...
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Spontaneous Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia Following Orthopaedic Surgery: Case Report and Review of the Literature
... Background: Spontaneous heparin induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a medical phenomenon whereby patients develop clinical and laboratory fea- tures of HIT without prior exposure to heparin. Aim: We present a patient who ...
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Sutures versus staples for wound closure in orthopaedic surgery: a pilot randomized controlled trial
... or orthopaedic surgery resident collected patient data on case report forms which were later entered into an electronic database (MS Excel, Microsoft, Redmond, ...
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The pathway to orthopaedic surgery: a population study of the role of access to primary care and availability of orthopaedic services in Ontario, Canada
... Data on the number of patients with at least one of fi ce visit to an orthopaedic surgeon or PCP for MSD or who had an orthopaedic surgery were obtained for each health planning area. The OHIP ...
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Changes in canine C-reactive protein levels following orthopaedic surgery: a prospective study
... glycoprotein, which are known to increase with inflam- mation, were not included in our evaluations, and it is unclear if these inflammatory markers change similarly to c-CRP concentration after orthopaedic ...
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Vascular complications of orthopaedic surgery: an update on diagnosis and management
... Abstract Vascular complications in orthopaedic surgery are not fre- quent, but they can be severe and occasionally life-threatening. Present technologies make it easier to detect and successfully manage ...
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Sutures versus staples for wound closure in orthopaedic surgery: a randomized controlled trial
... The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) defines surgical site infections (SSIs) as superficial incisional, deep inci- sional and organ/space infections based on clinical and laboratory confirmation [1]. Two-hundred and ...
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Introducing an AKI predictive tool for patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery
... undergoing surgery are at increased risk of acute kidney injury ...undergoing orthopaedic surgery using seven readily available ...undergoing orthopaedic surgery requiring an overnight ...
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Symptomatic venous thromboembolism and mortality in orthopaedic surgery – an observational study of 45 968 consecutive procedures
... The results with 513 VTEs diagnosed over a 10 year period correspond in average to one event per week on a department with more than 30 orthopedic surgeons. This indicates that the diagnosis of a postoperative VTE is an ...
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A retrospective cohort study of adverse events in patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery
... For example, Ouchterlony et al. [34] found that in a sample of 1,361 patients undergoing general, vascular, or orthopaedic surgery, AEs were noted in 47% of patients in the postoperative unit. In another ...
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Radiation exposure during C-arm-guided (fluoroscopy) small animal orthopaedic surgery
... When orthopaedic surgery required use of a C-arm, the surgical team (first assistant, operating surgeon, an- aesthesiologist) wore protective gear with attached TLDs while performing the ...
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The barriers and facilitators to the implementation of clinical guidance in elective orthopaedic surgery : a qualitative study protocol
... The aim of our research is to explore implementation problems through the application of ethnographic methods to investigate the barriers and facilitators to the use of evidence-based clinical guidelines in decisions ...
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Thromboprophylaxis and Orthopaedic Surgery: Options and Current Guidelines
... following orthopaedic surgery in Europe since May 2011 and is under review by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the present ...
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What orthopaedic surgery residents need to know about the hand and wrist?
... in orthopaedic surgery to learn during ...of orthopaedic surgeons have the opinion that common conditions of the wrist and hand are important for orthopaedic surgeons in non-uni- versity ...
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Should new oral anticoagulants replace low-molecular-weight heparin for thromboprophylaxis in orthopaedic surgery?
... A report from the UK National Health Service indi- cates that only about half of patients undergoing major orthopaedic surgery who are at high risk of thromboem- bolic complications receive effective ...
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Pilot randomized controlled trials in the orthopaedic surgery literature: a systematic review
... Overall, 73.5% (36/49) of the pilot RCTs found in the orthopaedic surgery literature were framed as feasibility trials (Table 1). The two most commonly explored feasi- bility objectives were safety and ...
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An assessment of the Chilean National Examination of Orthopaedic Surgery
... that orthopaedic surgery resi- dents must master during their ...the Orthopaedic In-Training Examination (OITE), a national test taken annually by orthopaedic residents that evaluates ...
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Bone morphogenetic proteins and growth factors: emerging role in regenerative orthopaedic surgery*
... Subsequent to animal studies that attribuited high fusion rates to the use of osteoinductive proteins in noninstru- mented posterolateral fusions, Johnsson et al. [4] random- ized 20 patients to fusion with either BMP-7 ...
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Robert P. Norton, M.D. Diplomat, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
... Bianco K, Schwab F, Norton R, Smith J, Klineberg E, Obeid I, Mundis G, Kebaish K, Hostin R, Hart R, Burton D, Ames C, Boachie O, Protopsaltis T, Lafage V, ISSG. Complications and Inter-Center Variability of Three Column ...
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