Mentorship in orthopaedic surgery

Orthopaedic surgery.

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...

Complications in orthopaedic surgery

It’s an old adage that states something to the effect that critical examination of your surgical complications will be more instructive in your development as a surgeon than unconditional admiration of your successes. The development of a complication following a surgical procedure is very troubling for a caring and dedicated surgeon, principally because of the morbidity and additional sufferin...

Radionuclides in orthopaedic surgery.

Bone scanning with radioactive isotopes has become a routine method for investigating disorders of bone. Departments of nuclear medicine throughout the country offer diagnostic facilities for a variety of problems which affect not only bone, but also the heart, kidney, brain, liver, pancreas and spleen as well as disorders of the blood. Indeed the use of radionuclides is now an important and es...