Trauma News

KOLOA, Hawaii — With intraoperative femur fractures on the rise, surgeons should aim to prevent these fractures from occurring by identifying high-risk patients and surgical risk factors, according to a presenter here.

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Mark A. Mighell, MD, offered several tip and tricks for operative management of clavicle fractures.

KOLOA, Hawaii — Surgeons must devise and implement calculated treatment algorithms when performing periprosthetic fracture revisions following total hip and total knee arthroplasties, according to a presenter here.

KOLOA, Hawaii — Orthopedic surgeons need to know the medial pathoanatomy of the femoral neck and obtain a high-quality reduction in the treatment of “young” femoral neck fractures, according to a presenter at Orthopedics Today Hawaii.

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Frank A. Liporace, MD, offered several tips and techniques for treating patients with tricky distal femur fractures.

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Daniel Scott Horowitz, MD, discussed the importance of anatomic syndesmotic reduction to ensure positive outcomes for patients with ankle fractures.

The FDA approved Symvess as a vascular conduit for extremity arterial injuries in adults when urgent revascularization is needed to avoid limb loss, and an autologous vein graft is not feasible, according to a press release.

Fractures that occurred during adulthood were associated with risk for future fractures, regardless of age of fracture occurrence, according to cohort study results published in JAMA Network Open.

According to published results, patients with PTSD may be at an increased risk for postoperative ED visits, periprosthetic joint infections and revision surgery after total knee arthroplasty compared with patients without PTSD.