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Orthopedics Best Clinical Article and Lifetime Achievement Award winners announced
SAN DIEGO — Orthopedics has announced the winners of its Best Clinical Article Award for 2016 and Lifetime Achievement Award for 2017.
Best Clinical Article for 2016 was awarded to the article, “Short versus long cephalomedullary nails for pertrochanteric hip fracture” by Nicholas B. Frisch, MD, MBA; Nickolas J. Nahm, MD; Jad G. Khalil, MD; Clifford M. Les, DVM, PhD; Stuart T. Guthrie, MD; and Michael A. Charters, MD, MS. The article reported on a study that found the nails when used with integrated cephalocervical screws and linear compression had similar overall rates of orthopedic complications when used to treat AO/OTA 31-A2 or A3 pertrochanteric fractures. The study also confirmed that short cephalomedullary nails had advantages in reducing surgical time and causing less blood loss during surgery. However, short nails were more frequently associated with periprosthetic femur fractures than long nails. While long nails showed a trend for screw cutouts, implant type was not an independent risk factor for screw cutout after investigators controlled for tip-apex distance.
The recipient of the Lifetime Achievement for 2017 was Nabil Ebraheim, MD. Ebraheim serves as chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and director of the Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program at the University of Toledo. He has pioneered several surgical techniques, including bedside fasciotomy. Ebraheim received his medical degree from the Cairo University School of Medicine in Egypt and completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. – by Abbey Bigler
References:
Frisch NB, et al. Orthopedics; 2017;doi:10.3928/01477447-20161116-01.
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