Trauma News

In addition to ensuring our patients get the best, safest and most evidence-based treatment, senior orthopaedic surgeons have the duty to make sure the next generation of orthopaedic surgeons are sufficiently trained in surgery to take over when “we have left the podium and pass on the relay for them.” This transition must be focused on in all areas of an orthopaedic department. Basically, it comes down to a simple statement: Every time a trainee and a senior surgeon are together around a patient – in surgery or not – there is a great opportunity to train and educate the trainee to improve her or his skills and knowledge for the benefit of patients in the future.

Access to health care, let alone orthopedic care, may be hard-won in a rural setting where there is a shortage of physicians and limited options for patients in terms of health insurance and transportation to office visits.

Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that CMS has finalized a policy to provide separate Medicare reimbursement for Exparel when it is administered in ASCs. The policy becomes effective on Jan. 1, 2019.

ORLANDO, Fla. — More than 2 million children were injured in falls from sofas and beds between 2007 and 2016, with the rates of injuries increasing during that 10-year period, according to a presentation at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition.

Brendan M. Patterson, MD, has been named chair of the department of orthopedic surgery at Cleveland Clinic.

Major skin defects have to be treated on a daily basis in orthopaedic and trauma surgery. This EFORT Anatomical Course course teaches experienced surgeons the skills they need if plastic surgeons are not available. There are several techniques in plastic surgery that an orthopaedic or trauma surgeon should master.

Catastrophes, large damage and mass casualty events are conceivable dangers, which have also occurred recently in Oslo, Nice and Muenster, to name just a few.

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

Fragility fractures had an estimated associated annual cost of 37.5 billion euros and an associated physical and emotional impact in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, according to a report from the International Osteoporosis Foundation.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Children with lateral condyle humerus fractures had ‘excellent’ functional outcomes at the early and 1-year follow-up regardless of complications seen postoperatively, according to a presenter at the Orthopaedic Trauma Association Annual Meeting.