Wakefield Orthopaedic Clinic, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; Centre for Orthopaedic and Trauma Research, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Université de Lille Nord de France, 59000 Lille, France; Service d'orthopédie, CHU de Lille, Hôpital Roger-Salengro, 59000 Lille, France. Electronic address: juliendartus@gmail.com.
General surgeons (GS), orthopedic surgeons (OS), and vascular surgeons (VS) can perform below-knee amputation (BKA) operations. We compared the outcomes of BKA patients among the three specialties....
Adult patients who underwent a BKA were identified from the 2016-2018 National Surgical Quality Improvement Project database. Statistical data for orthopedic and vascular BKA cases were then compared ...
There were 9619 BKA cases. VS had the highest volume of BKA with 58.9% of the cases, compared to GS at 22.9% and OS at 18.1%. 4.4% of general surgery patients had severe frailty compared to OS (3.3%) ...
The National Surgical Quality Improvement Project retrospective analysis of BKA cases suggested that mortality was not statistically different when performed by VS, GS, and OS. There were fewer overal...
Burnout is a serious issue that affects physicians more than the general population; however, those with higher levels of grit and resilience have been shown to experience lower levels of burnout. The...
We conducted a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study targeting a total of 180 orthopedic surgeons attending the yearly Jordanian National Orthopedic Conference (JNOC). Non-random sampling (i.e., c...
Among 135 respondents, 62.2% were specialists and 37.8% were residents. About 52.0% practiced in public hospitals. Approximately 69.0% worked for more than 50 h weekly. The prevalence of burnout among...
Jordanian orthopedic surgeons face significant rates of burnout. Institutional efforts should be taken to detect and prevent burnout in addition to enhancing the grit and resilience among orthopedic p...
The aim of the study was to research the video-based digital platforms that orthopedic specialists in Turkey use as an educational resource in their surgical preparations that they have not seen or do...
The importance of video-based digital platforms in surgical preparations that surgeons have not seen or done before was measured using the data obtained from 181 orthopedic specialists using a survey ...
Orthopedists used video-based digital platforms with a ratio of 38.7% among the educational resources in their surgical preparations that they have not seen or done before. There was no significant di...
Orthopedic specialists in Turkey primarily and frequently use video-based digital platforms as a training resource in their preparations for surgery that they have not seen or done before. The establi...
Surgical smoke generated through the use of electrical surgical devices poses a risk to the surgeon, medical personnel in the operating room, and the patient by exposing them to environmentally hazard...
A non-systematic review of the literature was completed with the aim of identifying the major categories of adverse health effects associated with surgical smoke inhalation and offering recommendation...
Three primary categories of risk associated with surgical smoke inhalation were identified: inflammation, viral/bacterial transmission, and carcinogenicity. In addition, strategies for mitigating risk...
Surgical smoke is an under-recognized occupational hazard within the orthopedic surgery literature. There are several strategies which can be employed to reduce risk. Further investigation is needed t...
Cross-sectional study....
This study aimed to stratify the geographic distribution of academic spine surgeons in the United States, analyzing how this distribution highlights differences in academic, demographic, professional ...
Spine surgeons were identified using American Association of Neurological Surgeons and American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons databases, categorizing into geographic regions of training and practice....
Academic spine surgeons (347 neurological; 314 orthopedic) are predominantly male (95%) and few have patents (23%) or NIH funding (4%). Regionally, the Northeast has the highest proportion per capita ...
Academic spine surgeons are found at the highest proportion in the Northeast and California; the Northeast has the greatest regional retention. Spine neurosurgeons have more additional degrees, wherea...
knee complaints are one of the most common reasons to consult the general practitioners in the Netherlands and contribute to the increasing burden on general practitioners. A proportion of patients th...
the aim of this study was to compare the frequency of (differential) diagnosis of osteoarthritis mentioned in referral letters of general practitioners with the frequency of osteoarthritis mentioned a...
a total of 292 referral letters were included. In the younger aged patients (45-54 years) osteoarthritis was mentioned less frequent and meniscal lesions were mentioned more frequent in referral lette...
Osteoarthritis was less frequently mentioned in general practitioner referral letters among the differential diagnosis then it was diagnosed at the outpatient clinic, especially in younger patients (4...
Prompt identification of fracture healing is crucial for medical decision-making and clinical research. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of the Radiographic Union Score for Hip (RUSH) in su...
We obtained 94 sets of X-ray films from the postoperative follow-up of 35 patients who underwent intramedullary nail fixation for subtrochanteric fractures. Six orthopedic trauma surgeons evaluated th...
Based on overall impressions, the agreement level among orthopedic trauma surgeons for determining the healing status of subtrochanteric fractures was moderate (Kappa = 0.564, 95% CI: 0.511-0.616). Ho...
Our study highlights the effectiveness of the RUSH scoring system in enhancing interobserver agreement and intraobserver consistency when evaluating subtrochanteric fracture healing in orthopedic trau...
Several studies have advocated the use of ultrasound to diagnose distal forearm fractures in children. However, there is limited data on the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound for distal forearm fractu...
This diagnostic study was conducted in a tertiary hospital emergency department in Germany. Participants were children and adolescents under 15 years of age who presented to the emergency department w...
From February to June 2021, 146 children under 15 met all inclusion and exclusion criteria, and 106 data sets were available for analysis. Regarding the presence of a fracture, X-ray and Wrist-POCUS s...
Pediatric surgeons and trainees, after minimal training in POCUS, had excellent diagnostic accuracy for distal forearm fractures in children and adolescents using POCUS compared to X-ray....
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Orthopedic surgery is among the least diverse specialties in medicine. This systematic review analyzes gender, racial, and ethnic diversity within orthopedic sports medicine and aims to raise awarenes...
A search of all published literature in the English language from PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, and Scopus databases, between January 1, 2010, and August 18, 2023, was performed according to Preferred Rep...
Thirteen studies published between 2016 and 2023 with STROBE scores 15.5 to 21.5 (70.5% to 97.7%) met criteria, and pertinent data were extracted. The percent of female orthopedic sports medicine surg...
Although increasingly more females and underrepresented minorities are joining orthopedic sports medicine, the rate of diversification remains slow and current involvement in leadership and research i...
Level IV. Systematic Review. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence....
