Pediatrics News

SAN DIEGO — Results showed adolescent athletes with comminuted or severely shortened clavicle fractures had no significant differences in return to sports or patient-reported outcomes whether they were treated operatively or nonoperatively.

SAN DIEGO — Pediatric patients used significantly fewer narcotic doses after common orthopedic surgeries than the quantities prescribed, according to results presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting.

SAN DIEGO — A multimodal pain regimen decreases total inpatient postoperative opioid use and improves pain scores in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis who undergo posterior spinal fusion, according to a presenter.

SAN DIEGO — Results showed vertebral body tethering for treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis may have outcomes comparable to that of posterior spinal fusion.

SAN DIEGO — Results presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting showed the total number of concussions tripled among female athletes aged 14 to 18 years during a 20-year period.

The modified Fels knee skeletal maturity system accurately estimates ultimate limb length discrepancy and appropriate timing of epiphysiodesis in pediatric patients with lower limb discrepancy, according to a presenter.

Published results showed particulated juvenile allograft cartilage implantation for patellofemoral chondral defects may yield satisfactory short-term outcomes and postoperative MRI appearance in pediatric and adolescent patients.

Pediatric and adolescent patients with ACL tears had a 2% increase in the risk of medial meniscal injury each week that a surgical procedure was delayed following the initial injury, according to published results.

According to published results, a two-surgeon model allows inexperienced surgeons to achieve consistent and reproducible operative performance when treating adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

The FDA released a safety communication regarding potential mechanical failures and concerns of tissue incompatibility associated with components from a growing spinal rod system from NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics.