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Premature physeal closure more likely to occur with pronation-external rotation ankle fracture patterns
Skeletally immature patients with pronation-external rotation ankle fracture patterns were more likely to experience premature physeal closure associated with angular deformity than patients with supination-external rotation or supination-plantar flexion ankle fracture patterns, according to results.
Fracture energy of calcaneal fractures positively correlated with Sanders classification
The positive correlation of fracture energy with Sanders classification for displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures may be used to identify more severe fractures at greater risk of post-traumatic osteoarthritis, according to published results.
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Low incidence of cortical impaction associated with posterior wall acetabular fractures
Results showed 4% of patients with posterior wall acetabular fracture dislocation had associated posterosuperior cortical impaction.
Orthopedic surgeons, centers seek to be part of the solution to the opioid crisis
The opioid crisis is a growing problem, and statistics show the opioid prescribing practices of orthopedic surgeons may contribute to this serious situation.
Twin Cities Orthopedics opioid guidelines program reduced prescriptions after orthopedic surgery
Twin Cities Orthopedics in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area has significantly reduced pain medication prescriptions and improved the habits for safe disposal of unused medications while maintaining high patient satisfaction levels with implementation of an opioid guidelines program.
Fluoroscopy with cone beam CT may help for talar fractures, but no significant differences found
In the operative treatment of talar fractures, conventional fluoroscopy with additional intraoperative cone beam CT may be beneficial but its impact was not statistically significant, according to published results.
Data from national orthopaedic and traumatology registries improve quality of future patients’ treatment
The 20th EFORT Congress to be held 5 to 7 June in Lisbon, Portugal is just around the corner. When we started planning the scientific content for the congress some 18 months ago, we decided the main theme should be registries and their impact on our daily practice. At that time, we could not possibly have known that the topic of registries and their outcomes would be focused even more at the time of the congress due to the upcoming new medical device regulation process in Europe, initiated by the European Union Commission.
Both flexible, locked intramedullary nails and precontoured locked plates were effective for clavicular fractures
According to recently published results, precontoured locked plates and flexible, locked intramedullary nails were both effective in the management of displaced or shortened clavicular fractures.
Injury factors, surgical timing important in treatment of knee dislocations
ORLANDO — In a presentation at the Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Meeting, Bruce A. Levy, MD, noted the importance of recognizing whether a knee dislocation is a limb-threatening injury.
Wide-awake surgery yielded less pain, shorter hospitalization for distal radius fractures
Wide-awake local anesthesia with no tourniquet may be an efficient immediate intervention for patients with distal radius fractures, providing less postoperative pain and shorter hospitalization compared with general anesthesia, according to published results.