Trauma-Related Injury

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NEW YORK — A focus on follow-up care and monocular precautions may help improve outcomes in pediatric patients undergoing retinal repair, according to a presenter at OSN New York Retina.

Use of rapid limited-sequence MRI in patients with femoral shaft fractures may help identify femoral neck fractures not diagnosed on thin-cut high-resolution CT without delaying definitive treatment, according to published results.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons released a series of new clinical practice guidelines and appropriate use criteria to offer guidance on diagnosis and management decisions for combat and civilian trauma patients. These guidelines and appropriate use criteria were created as part of the Major Extremity Trauma and Rehabilitation Consortium, a volunteer workgroup of musculoskeletal trauma surgery experts, military surgeons and AAOS research staff.