Implants are widely used for orthopaedic applications such as fixing fractures, repairing non-unions, obtaining a joint arthrodesis, total joint arthroplasty, spinal reconstruction, and soft tissue anchorage. Previously, orthopaedic implants were designed simply as mechanical devices; the biological aspects of the implant were a byproduct of stable internal/external fixation of the device to th...

OBJECTIVE To assess attitudes to the use of thromboprophylaxis among orthopaedic surgeons in the United Kingdom. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS Single page postal questionnaire to all 926 active orthopaedic surgeons who are members of the British Orthopaedic Association. RESULTS The response rate was 70% (659 surgeons), of whom 595 (90%) used some form of prophylaxis. Most (548; 83%) used drugs but 47...

1 Laboratory of Statistics, Osaka City University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan 2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan 3 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan 4 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan 5 Department of Orthoped...

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...