Trauma News

WAILEA, Hawaii — When using humeral nails to treat humeral shaft fractures, surgeons should have a medialized starting point, lock the nail proximally and distally and remember to ream, according to a presenter.

WAILEA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2021, Cory A. Collinge, MD, spoke about tibial nailing through the suprapatellar portal.

Avenue Therapeutics announced the FDA has issued a second complete response letter regarding the new drug application for intravenous tramadol as an analgesic treatment for patients with acute pain.

Published results showed a higher prevalence of nonunion after nonoperative treatment of proximal humeral fractures than previous research, with a greater risk among patients with substantial head-shaft angle and translation and who smoke.

WAILEA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2021, Frank A. Liporace, MD, FAAOS, spoke about decreasing revisions when deciphering between a type B1 and B2 periprosthetic hip fractures.

Compared with proximal femoral fractures, acetabular fractures were linked with lower 1-year mortality rates in older patients despite being associated with a higher complication rate, according to published results.

Postmenopausal women have an increased risk for a subsequent fracture after both traumatic and nontraumatic initial fractures, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

WAILEA, Hawaii — A presenter at Orthopedics Today Hawaii noted plates and nails can be used alone or in conjunction with one another in the treatment of distal femur fractures.

WAILEA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2021, Anna M. Miller, MD, FAAOS, FACS, FAOA, spoke about how to fix posterior malleolus fractures.

WAILEA, Hawaii — Patients with stable or unstable elbow dislocations can usually be treated nonoperatively, according to a presenter at Orthopedics Today Hawaii.