We report the prevalence and incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonisation during the patient journey for patients admitted to orthopaedic and trauma wards. Patients were swabbed for MRSA colonisation on admission, transfer, and discharge from hospital. Elective patients undergoing major joint surgery were also swabbed at a pre-operative assessment clinic. Of the ...

IN 1967 it was decided that an orthopaedic surgeon should pay regular visits to Muckamore Abbey. It was soon realised that instead of seeing selected cases it would be more productive to carry out a survey of all the patients. This would mean that every patient would be examined at least once by an orthopaedic surgeon. It so happens that at Muckamore Abbey the patients with orthopaedic problems...

The academic orthopaedic department has the primary goal of providing clinical services, educating orthopaedic surgeons, providing advancements through research and technology development, and creating and maintaining the administrative infrastructure that monitors and enables the department's overall mission. Simultaneous reductions in revenues and increases in the cost to practice medicine po...

Patient safety related to orthopaedic implants, particularly joint arthroplasty, is a major concern due to the increasing elderly population and the wide variety of available devices. The safe use of medical devices, such as orthopaedic implants, is regulated by institutions or governmental agencies in many countries. Nevertheless, adverse incidents associated with the implantation of orthopaed...

Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports | pISSN 2250-0685 | eISSN | Available on www.jocr.co.in | doi: 2321-3817 10.13107/jocr.2250-0685.182 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, p...

We wish to thank the staff of Muramatsu Health Centre for their help in data collection. We also thank the following institutions for providing us with necessary medical data: Igarashi Orthopaedic Clinic, Ishizone Clinic, Ito Clinic, Kaneko Clinic, Kasahara Clinic, Koyama Orthopaedic Clinic, Nanbugo General Hospital, Nanbugo Kosei Hospital, Murata Clinic, Takeda Clinic, Yamamura Orthopaedic Cli...

Scaphocapitate syndrome is quite rare. It usually remain undiagnosed at first and is treated as a scaphoid fracture. This syndrome was first reported in 1937. Since then 14 more cases have been reported. Six types have been described with type 1 being the most common one. This is the first case reported from the department of orthopaedic surgery, Ahvaz university of medical sciences.