Abstract The aim of this audit cycle is to assess departmental compliance with the standards elucidated by Academy Medical Royal Colleges, and British Orthopaedic Association respect patient record keeping in regard trauma meeting documentation. Specific criteria for documentation information were devised from standards. Over a one-week period September 2019, notes all Trauma patients on week’s...

Abstract Aim To determine safe levels of tourniquet inflation pressures in trauma and orthopaedic surgery. Method Data was collected on 150 patients retrospectively from the intraoperative anaesthetic records undergoing elective surgery at a single site. included demographic data, maximum systolic blood pressures. British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) standards for use were used to Results The ...

Trauma is classified as bodily injury severe enough to pose a threat to life or to individual parts of the body such as a limb or an organ [3,4]. Trauma remains a national and worldwide public health problem and is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, especially among previously healthy, productive young people and among males in particular [3]. The majority of trauma care is carried out...

The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Malaya (in Singapore) was established in 1952. Prior to this, the teaching of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University was undertaken by the Department of Surgery under the Professor of Surgery and Professor of Clinical Surgery. From a course consisting of 15 weekly classes on fractures for 18 undergraduates in the late 1930s, and the clin...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to establish the number of unnecessary preoperative blood tests undertaken on ASA Grade 1 patients undergoing minor/moderate orthopaedic trauma surgery. DESIGN Review of all ASA1 patients who had been operated on the trauma lists for three consecutive months. SETTING UK Teaching Hospital. PARTICIPANTS Patients with ages ranging between 16 and 60 years, ...