AIM The purpose of this series of cases was to analyse our management of orthopaedic trauma casualties in the Libyan civil war crisis in the European summer of 2014. We looked at both damage control orthopaedics and for case variety of war trauma at a civilian hospital. Due to our geographical proximity to Libya, Malta was the closest European tertiary referral centre. Having only one Level 1 t...

Background and Justification: Over 70,000 hip fractures occur annually in the UK. The total cost of care is over £2 billion with 10% mortality at 30 days and up to 30% mortality at one year. Their care is dependent on close multidisciplinary relationships between many specialties due to the complex nature of these patients, both in terms of their medical co-morbidities and their ability to reha...

INTRODUCTION The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS) has issued guidance regarding the use of reoperation rates in the revalidation of UK-based orthopaedic surgeons. Currently, little has been published concerning acceptable rates of reoperation following primary surgical management of orthopaedic trauma, particularly with reference to revalidation. METHODS A retrospective review was c...

©2005 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.87B9. 16543 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2005;87-B:1178-81. Immune deficiency associated with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi’s sarcoma was first recognised in the United States in 1981. The causative virus, now known as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), was identified in 1983 by Barre-Sinoussi, Mont...

1 General Hospital of Giannitsa, Greece 2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, “St Paul” General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece 3 SEGAS National Centre Sports and Exercise Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece 4 Department of Neurosurgery, “G. Papanikolaou” General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece 5 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Ioannina, Greece 6 Centre Lead and Professor of Sports...