Regional anesthesia for orthopedic procedures: What orthopedic surgeons need to know. [PDF]
World J Orthop, 2022 Regional anesthesia is an integral component of successful orthopedic surgery. Neuraxial anesthesia is commonly used for surgical anesthesia while peripheral nerve blocks are often used for postoperative analgesia. Patient evaluation for regional anesthesia should include neurological, pulmonary, cardiovascular, and hematological assessments. Neuraxial
Kamel I, Ahmed MF, Sethi A.
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Top orthopedic sports medicine procedures [PDF]
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2018 Orthopedic sports medicine is a subspecialty of Orthopedics that focuses on managing pathological conditions of the musculoskeletal system arising from sports practice. When dealing with athletes, timing is the most difficult issue to face.
Sebastiano Vasta +4 more
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Do Patients Accurately Recall Their Preoperative Symptoms After Elective Orthopedic Procedures? [PDF]
Cureus, 2023 Patient-reported outcome measures are a frequent tool used to assess orthopedic surgical outcomes. However, recall bias is a potential limitation of these tools when used retrospectively, as they rely on patients to accurately recall their preoperative ...
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Analysis of patient characteristics, health care costs by surgical venue, and opioid utilization for common orthopedic procedures in the United States. [PDF]
J Manag Care Spec Pharm, 2021 BACKGROUND: Orthopedic surgery can be performed in hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) and ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs), as well as in traditional inpatient venues.
Waterman F +3 more
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Epidemiology of cardiac or orthopedic procedures in gout rheumatoid arthritis: a national time-trends study [PDF]
Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease, 2021 Aims: To examine the secular trends in the number and rates of in-hospital cardiac and orthopedic procedures in people with gout and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and the United States (US) general population, from 1998 to 2014.
Jasvinder A. Singh, John Cleveland
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Outcomes of Patients With Cirrhosis Undergoing Orthopedic Procedures: An Analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. [PDF]
J Clin Gastroenterol, 2019 Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Introduction: The population of patients with cirrhosis is growing and shifting toward a more elderly demographic and thus are at risk of developing orthopedic complications. There is lack of data on
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Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 2020 Background The use of fluoroscopically-guided interventional (FGI) procedures by orthopedic surgeons has been increasing. This study aimed to investigate the occupational radiation exposure among orthopedic surgeons in South Korea.
Seonghoon Kang +6 more
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Does surgeon experience influence the amount of radiation exposure during orthopedic procedures? A systematic review. [PDF]
Orthop Rev (Pavia), 2019 With an increasing use of intraoperative fluoroscopy in operating rooms worldwide, the topic of radiation exposure has become a major concern among hospital staff, doctors and patients alike.
Malik AT +3 more
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Presence of Orthopedic Residency Decreases Emergency Physician's Confidence in Orthopedic Procedures. [PDF]
Cureus, 2021 At present, there exists no standard orthopedic training for emergency medicine (EM) residency programs. Varying residency environments including but not limited to volume, acuity, and competing residency programs will dictate the number of orthopedic procedures a resident is exposed to, ultimately dictating a graduate's comfort level with orthopedic ...
Blazar E, Jones B, Behgam B.
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J Med Internet Res, 2018 Background The accuracy of patient self-report of health care utilization and complications has yet to be determined. If patients are accurate and engaged self-reporters, collecting this information in a manner that is temporally proximate to the health ...
Rosner BI, Gottlieb M, Anderson WN.
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