Lectures on Orthopaedic Surgery

Orthopaedic surgery.

Trauma and orthopaedic surgery on the Internet.

The Internet is rapidly expanding as a means of acquiring health information for medical professionals. It is now impossible to identify the total number of websites providing specialist information in trauma and orthopaedic surgery. Webpages may be from a leading expert with excellent documentation and a complete bibliography or merely in the form of encouragement from a friendly online suppor...

Ethics in orthopaedic surgery.

©2005 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.87B11. 16936 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2005;87-B:1449-51. Medicine, law and religion are the three traditional learned professions. With professionalism should come both privilege and responsibility. As surgeons we study to achieve specialised knowledge and supplement this with training and experience. Our patien...

Ximelagatran in orthopaedic surgery.

Ximelagatran represents the first new oral anticoagulant since the introduction of warfarin almost 60 years ago, and has been evaluated for the treatment and prevention of a range of venous and arterial thromboembolic disorders. The MElagatran THRomboprophylaxis in Orthopaedic surgery (METHRO) and EXpanded PRophylaxis Evaluation Surgery Study (EXPRESS) studies have investigated the efficacy and...

Towards Painless Orthopaedic Surgery

Almost one thousand patients underwent either total hip replacement or spinal surgery in which diamorphine 0.5-1.0 mg was injected intrathecally. Approximately one half of the arthroplasty patients and one third of the spinal patients required no other post-operative analgesia. In the remainder, analgesics were not required for 12 hours post-operatively. The benefits of the technique and possib...