Orthopedics Today Current Issue

The following articles appeared in the print edition of Orthopedics Today.

Table of Contents

• Social media offers orthopedic surgeons a novel collaborative opportunity
• AMA forwards physician concerns about burdensome federal regulations to CMS
• Enterobateriaceae surpasses MRSA as leading cause of surgical site infections in UK
• Key to management of bone defects is to address bone loss
• MRSA infections shown to peak during summer and fall
• National AAOS campaign calls for end to distracted driving
• National initiative aims to improve health care and lower costs
• Revision for deep infection following THA unaffected by antibiotic cement
• Start your day with a ‘six pack’ John D. Kelly IV, MD
• Study finds hip resurfacing offers clinical benefits over total hip
• Surgeon applies the science of medicine to the game of golf and publishes the results
• Diversity in orthopedic surgery: Underrepresentation starts immediately after medical school
• Medicare the ‘entitlement’: Finite resources require changes Douglas W. Jackson, MD
• Comparable outcomes seen with cobalt-chromium and oxidized zirconium knees
• More complications seen with IM nailing vs. plating for humeral shaft fractures
• Re-rupture, infection may have long-term impact after MIS Achilles tendon rupture repair
• Study highlights impact of age on outcomes of MACI in the ankle
• Study links disease duration with infection after TJA in patients with RA
• Study shows no advantage to augmenting volar plate fixation with cement in elderly patients
• Armed forces health care program, private insurer provide access to SBi’s TAR system
• Glycemia control and infection: Need for prospective studies in orthopedics Javad Parvizi, MD, FRCS; Kevin McCoy
• Complex orthopedic injury patterns found in US combat team
• Contralateral hamstring graft offers quality of life scores comparable to ipsilateral graft for ACL reconstruction
• ‘Encouraging’ intermediate results seen with meniscal allograft transplantation
• Improved clinical scores seen with arthroscopic treatment of FAI in young patients
• Lateral retinacular release reduces pain in the right patient
• Loose implants signal risk of proximal femoral remodeling
• No benefit of platelet-rich plasma found for rotator cuff healing
• Proximally tapered uncemented stems address concerns with Dorr type C bone
• Study finds 47% primary union rate in tibia patients with ‘critical-sized’ bone defects
• Study identifies predictors of failure after ACL reconstruction in young athletes
• Surgeon shares tips for successful locked plating of proximal humeral fractures
• Maryland affirms physician self-referral prohibition Lawrence H. Brenner, JD; B. Sonny Bal, MD, PhD, JD, MBA
• Bone loss in shoulder instability: Current concepts and technological advances
• New instrumentation techniques in mobile bearing UKA optimize surgical results Adolph V. Lombardi Jr., MD, FACS; Michael J. Morris, MD; Keith R. Berend, MD