OBJECTIVE To determine the knowledge of Brazilian Orthopedic Surgeons on the costs of orthopedic surgical devices used in surgical implants . METHODS A questionnaire was applied to Brazilian Orthopedic Surgeons during the 46th Brazilian Congress on Orthopedics and Traumatology . RESULTS Two hundred and one Orthopedic Surgeons completely filled out the questionnaire. The difference between t...

ANESTHESIOLOGY CLINICSwww.anesthesiology.theclinics.comConsulting EditorLEE A. FLEISHERSeptember 2022 • Volume 40 Number 3 CLINICS www.anesthesiology.theclinics.com Consulting Editor LEE FLEISHER September

Orthopedic bone graft infections are major complications in today’s medicine, and the demand for antibacterial treatments is expanding because of spread antibiotic resistance. Various compositions hydroxyapatite (HAp) which Calcium (Ca2+) ions substituted with Cerium (Ce3+) Magnesium (Mg2+) herein proposed as biomaterials hard tissue implants. This approach gained popularity recent years and, p...

Previous studies have examined possible incentives for pursuing orthopedic fellowship training, but we are unaware of previously published studies reporting the trends in the orthopedic job market since the acceptance of certain criteria for fellowship programs by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in 1985. We hypothesized that, since the initiation of accredited p...

BACKGROUND/AIM Nosocomial infections (NI) are a serious health problem resulting in an enromous burden of excess morbidity and mortaliti rates, and health care costs. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of NI and to identify groups of patients at special risk for NI in the University Clinical Center, Kragujevac, Serbia. METHODS A period prevalence study design was used in this ...