Trauma News

LAS VEGAS — At the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, Jesse B. Jupiter, MD, discussed whether volar plating was enough for the treatment of distal radius fractures. He said volar plates are not always suitable or applicable for all patients with distal radius fractures and that additional technologies may be needed.

LAS VEGAS — At the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, James Gladstone, MD, chief of the orthopedic sports medicine service in the department of orthopedic surgery at the Mount Sinai Health System and associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, spoke about patient education on postoperative pain management for arthroscopic meniscectomy.

Although patients with hip fractures on direct oral anticoagulants experienced long elapse time until surgical repair, results showed no differences in bleeding or transfusion rates when compared with patients on warfarin.

LAS VEGAS — At the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, Joseph H. Schwab, MD, spoke about the management of vertebral fractures caused by spinal metastases. He said pain may not always come from the fracture, but from the cancer.

Pediatric sports- and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries, or SRR-TBIs, cause more than 280,000 visits to EDs throughout the United States, according to researchers from the CDC. Nearly half of these SRR-TBIs are caused by contact sports.

LAS VEGAS — At the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, Jessica Hooper, MD, chief resident at NYU Langone Health’s Department of Orthopedic Surgery, spoke about results of a study that compared opioid use in the 90-day postoperative period after hospitalization of orthopedic trauma patients. 

According to a recently published study, fractures and head injuries are the most common injuries seen in collisions involving standing electric scooters.

Published results showed patients with acetabular fractures involving the posterior wall that were managed with open reduction and internal fixation had poorer reduction and a higher rate of conversion to total hip arthroplasty if they had high-energy mechanisms and a combination of radiographic features.

At this stage of the EFORT Annual Congress organization process, more than 180 sessions and 2,200 presenters have been assigned to actively participate and share their expertise in Lisbon.

EFORT Open Reviews is the new open access journal from EFORT and Bone & Joint Publishing. All articles are free to read online with no subscription required.