Trauma News

Editor’s note: For 2020, the Physician Assistants in Orthopaedic Surgery awarded four $5,000 scholarships to PA students with an interest in orthopedics.

Saint Barnabas Medical Center announced the appointment of Frank A. Liporace, MD, as chair of the department of orthopedics, according to a press release.

Use of mini-fragment plates may be effective for the provisional fixation of elementary and associated acetabular fractures, according to an orthopedic trauma specialist.

Published results showed nonoperative treatment of periprosthetic humeral shaft fractures after reverse total shoulder arthroplasty may achieve fracture union.

DePuy Synthes has announced the launch of its Fibulink syndesmosis repair system for patients with traumatic ankle injuries, according to a press release.

Editor’s note: For 2020, the Physician Assistants in Orthopaedic Surgery awarded four $5,000 scholarships to PA students with an interest in orthopedics.

Healio LIVE announced Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2021, which was scheduled for January 2021 in Maui, Hawaii, will be rescheduled to later in the year.

One week of immobilization was as effective as 3 weeks of immobilization for patients with proximal humeral fractures in results of a prospective study that included mostly Neer two-part fractures treated with the technique.

Patients who sustained a hip fracture in hospital had a higher mortality risk than patients who sustained a hip fracture outside the hospital, according to results presented at the Virtual EFORT Congress.

Wide exposure prior to thorough debridement is essential when treating Volkmann’s contracture, regardless of what the next steps to treat the patient might be, a presenter said at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand Annual Meeting.