Trauma News

Despite improvements in procedural efficiency and length of stay, hospital charges and payments have increased relative to surgeon charges and payments after surgical fixation of hip fractures, according to published results.

Due to the heterogeneous nature of lumbopelvic fractures, particularly those involving the sacrum, these fractures should be classified prior to commencing treatment, a presenter said.

An 81-year-old man with significant medical comorbidities presented to the emergency room with neck and shoulder pain after a fall at a nursing home.

Register results showed worse DASH scores at 1 year for patients with combined distal radius and distal ulnar fractures vs. those with any type of distal radius fracture, a presenter said at the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting.

Even moderate levels of leisure-time physical activity in middle age are associated with lower risk for fractures, according to study data published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

OrthoSpin’s second-generation digitally enabled external fixation system for orthopedic treatments received regulatory clearance from the FDA, the company announced in a press release.

Aside from the hand, the most common level of amputation in the upper extremity is the transradial amputation; and these injuries typically result from major trauma.

A 68-year-old man presented to our outpatient orthopedic department with a complicated history of chronic ankle pain and deformity, as well as a right ankle injury sustained 3 weeks earlier.

Despite higher interfragmentary strains placed on distal femur fractures when weight-bearing during early healing exceeds 20% of a patient’s body weight, fracture models showed the fractures can likely withstand increased loads.

Patients with trochanteric hip fractures treated with a hip plating system had similar health-related quality of life outcomes and risk of revision as those treated with a sliding hip screw, according to published results.