Surgical training is one of the most promising areas in medicine where 3-D computer graphics and virtual reality techniques are emerging. Orthopedic surgery is a discipline requiring appreciation and understanding of complex 3-dimensional bony structures and their relationships to nerves, blood vessels and other vital structures. Learning these spatial skills requires a lengthy period and much ...

Every year, 4 billion pounds of waste are produced by health care facilities, and the amount continues to increase annually. In response, a movement toward greening health care has been building, with a particular focus on the operating room. Between 20% and 70% of health care waste originates from a hospital's operating room, and up to 90% of operating room waste is improperly sorted and sent ...

Among the power drills ( Electrical/ Pneumatic/Battery ) used in Orthopedic surgery, battery drill has got several advantages. Surgeons in low resource settings could not routinely use Orthopedic battery drills (OBD) due to the prohibitive cost of good drills or poor quality of other drills. “Hardware” or Engineering battery drill (HBD) is a viable alternative to OBD. HBD is easy to procure, ru...

Orthopedic implants, such as screws, are provided in a non-sterile state and must be reprocessed before each use, therefore they may subjected to multiple reprocessing cycles until implanted the patient. The effect of these various on quality safety implants has been subject concern discussion around world. In this narrative review, we discuss four main challenges associated with supplying same...

OBJECTIVES (1) To determine the concordance between injury diagnoses (head injury (HI), probable HI, or orthopedic injury) for children visiting an emergency department for an injury using two DATA SOURCES an injury surveillance system (Canadian Hospitals Injury Research and Prevention Program, CHIRPP) and a physician billing claims database (Regie de l'assurance maladie de Quebec, RAMQ), and...

BACKGROUND Codman's paradox reveals a misunderstanding of geometry in orthopedic practice. Physicians often encounter situations that cannot be understood intuitively during orthopedic interventions such as corrective osteotomy. Occasionally, unexpected angular or rotational deformity occurs during surgery.This study aimed to draw the attention of orthopedic surgeons toward the concepts of orie...

Background: Injury represents a growing global health crisis. Uganda, like much of Sub-Saharan Africa, faces little pre-hospital and medical infrastructure, severe shortages of healthcare workers and a large and growing disease burden from injury. This study aimed to describe the epidemiology of injured patients admitted to Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda and determine thei...

STUDY DESIGN Two reviewers rated the 112 clinical articles, from January through June 2003, published in Spine using a level-of-evidence grading system. The ratings were compared to previously published ratings of 2 orthopedic journals with similar impact factors. OBJECTIVE To compare Spine to other orthopedic journals using a level-of-evidence rating system. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA A pr...

The decision to perform computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) to rule out pulmonary embolism (PE) in orthopedic trauma patients is challenging. The Wells score is a commonly used clinical probability tool developed to determine the likelihood of PE and assist in determining the need for CTPA examination. This study evaluated the usefulness of the Wells score for predicting PE in pati...