Clinical registries have become a normality in virtually all fields of medicine. Orthopaedics has many ways led this development with early knee and hip arthroplasties. The South African Orthopaedic Registry (SAOR) is an ambitious undertaking to register orthopaedic procedures performed Africa will provide valuable data for quality assessment, teaching allocation resources.1

Need The need for both elective and emergency orthopaedic services in developing countries is great. Most of the degenerative musculoskeletal diseases seen in the West are prevalent, as well as conditions such as untreated club foot, gross genu varum and valgus, tuberculosis of the spine and severe chronic osteomyelitis. Road traffic accidents are becoming an epidemic. More than 80% of deaths i...

The development of a computer based orthopaedic surgical system, with a clear surgical application and a commercial objective, requires the identification of the orthopaedic surgical principle it aims to solve. Other requirements of such a system include: its perceived advantages, its surgically acceptable format and the issues that will be encountered during its development. This paper identif...

SIMULATION INTO THE VIRTUAL ORTHOPAEDIC UNIVERSITY S. GRANGE, G.B WILLS, N. HUMPHREY, J. BURRILL, T. BUNKER, D. DEROURE Department of Education, Royal College of Surgeons of England, United Kingdom IAM Group, Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury, United Kingdom Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Centre, Exeter, United Kingd...

Extremity injuries make up 54% of combat wounds sustained in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. In a cohort of war-wounded service members, we identified the conditions secondary to battle injury that result in disqualification from continued service. The Army Physical Evaluation Board records of 464 wounded service members who were injured between October 2001 and January ...

The loss of bone integrity can significantly compromise the aesthetics and mobility of patients and can be treated using orthopaedic implants. Over the past decades; various orthopaedic implants; such as allografts; xenografts and synthetic materials; have been developed and widely used in clinical practice. However; most of these materials lack intrinsic osteoinductivity and thus cannot induce...

During my early orthopaedic training, between 1936 and 1939, I failed to appreciate the full horror ofbone and joint tuberculosis, with its protracted treatment and crippling results; I encountered several cases during the war, but it was not until I became superintendent of the Derby County Tuberculosis and Orthopaedic Service in 1947 that this was borne in on me. The Orthopaedic Hospital at B...

practice, by requiring budding orthopaedic surgeons to pass a board examination through a peer-review process. Nearer to home, the Western Pacific Orthopaedic Association was formed in 1962 by a group of senior orthopaedic surgeons who believed that the countries bordering the Western Pacific Basin constitute a geographical area with certain medical problems not found in other countries. It was...

Nurses and other caregivers face high risk for developing work-related musculoskeletal disorders while lifting and holding limbs in the orthopaedic practice setting. A task force including representatives from the National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses, American Nurses Association, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Patient Safety Center of Inquiry at the James A. Haley ...