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 ...
Masud S +4 more
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Prevalence and risk factors of preoperative anemia in patients undergoing elective orthopedic procedures in Northwest Ethiopia: a multicenter prospective observational cohort study. [PDF]
Patient Saf Surg, 2023 Background Preoperative anemia is a common hematologic problem in major orthopedic surgery in developing countries. It is a condition in which the number and size of red blood cells are insufficient to meet the body’s physiologic needs, consequently ...
Diress GM, Ayele G.
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Study to estimate the average blood loss in different orthopedic procedures: A retrospective review. [PDF]
Ann Med Surg (Lond), 2021 Background In orthopedic surgery, bleeding is an inevitable side effect. The study's aim was to provide estimated blood loss values in various orthopedic procedures and take a step towards developing statistically reliable formulae.
Hasan Khan MN +5 more
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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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Penicillin allergy labels drive perioperative prophylactic antibiotic selection in orthopedic procedures. [PDF]
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract, 2020 In surgical patients, PAL are associated with increased surgical site infections (SSI)3 likely due to prophylactic antibiotic choice. For most surgeries, a first-generation cephalosporin such as cefazolin is the preferred prophylactic antibiotic due to ...
Coleman DT +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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Pediatric Anesthesia Concerns and Management for Orthopedic Procedures. [PDF]
Pediatr Clin North Am, 2020 Anesthetic management of pediatric orthopedic patients is uniquely challenging. Approach to the pediatric patient must consider heightened preoperative anxiety and its postoperative behavioral and pain effects.
Wu JP.
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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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