Orthopedics Today Current Issue

The following articles appeared in the print edition of Orthopedics Today.
Table of Contents
- More work required to prevent and successfully treat periprosthetic infection
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- AMA launches new tool to help physicians correct unfair managed care contracts
- Following standardized TJA processes leads to better quality care, study finds
- Heat stroke is preventable through careful observation, ability for immediate cooling
- Shape-fit cutting guides for total knee replacement lower operating time, raise patient satisfaction
- Spine surgeon sees good prospects for eventual use of stem cells in fusion surgery
- Stem cells are a potential treatment for disc degeneration, spine surgeon says
- Stem cells’ source, differentiation potential and potency impact their use in the spine
- Surgeons may find superior outcomes using orthobiologics for difficult fractures
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- Gender-specific sizing for knee implants: Do the data confirm the need?
- Tort reform and the Senate: Buying political influence Douglas W. Jackson, MD
- Articular cartilage regeneration: Current status and future opportunities
- Beware of new trends in professional negligence litigation Lawrence H. Brenner, JD; B. Sonny Bal, MD, PhD, JD, MBA
- The Massachusetts health care reform experience: What you need to know
- Treating femoral fractures with intramedullary rods is safe but tricky