Trauma News

KOLOA, Hawaii — At Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Frank A. Liporace, MD, spoke about intertrochanteric and subtrochanteric fractures.

A 35-year-old man presented to our institution 6 weeks after a motorcycle collision. During this accident, he sustained a right femoral shaft fracture that was managed with closed reduction and retrograde medullary fixation at another institution.

KOLOA, Hawaii — At Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Cory A. Collinge, MD, spoke about periprosthetic fractures of the distal femur. He said it is critical to ensure the total knee implant is stable for patients with periprosthetic fractures.

Closed reduction compared with open reduction may not be an inferior surgical treatment for patellar fractures as researchers found no significant differences seen between the treatments with regard to outcomes.

Use of a low-cost negative pressure wound therapy system may be an effective and safe alternative compared with commercially available negative pressure wound therapy systems in a resource-challenged setting, according to results.

Based on the positive feedback and huge interest from all previous years, the EFORT Comprehensive Review Course is currently considered as one of the basic steps of the orthopaedics and traumatology training.

According to study results, limb salvage surgery was associated with an “acceptable means of oncological outcome and function” after resection of a shoulder girdle tumor.

OrthoGrid Systems Inc. received FDA 510(k) clearance for the PhantomMSK Trauma application.

Patients who were obese or smokers who underwent surgical treatment for distal radius fractures experienced excellent radiographic and functional outcomes postoperatively at 1 year, according to published results.

ORLANDO — New data suggests using a systematic approach to recognize patients with acetabular fractures who would benefit from undergoing total hip arthroplasty, according to a presenter at the Current Concepts of Joint Replacement Winter Meeting.