Background Women now constitute 49% of medical school matriculants. The percentage of women in orthopaedic surgery training programs has not kept pace with the increase in the number of women medical students. Although the number of female orthopaedic residents has increased and continues to do so slightly over time, the results of the 2008 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) census...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate any differences in the accuracy of knee MRI interpretation between radiology and orthopaedic surgery residents as well as to evaluate differences in quality of interpretation relative to resident training level. In this study, 20 MRI scans demonstrating specific pathology of the knee were identified. From one institution, two radiology residents and two...

With the increase in the number of orthopaedic surgeons and the aggressive marketing by manufacturing companies, high technology orthopaedic surgery is being more frequently carried out in Malaysia. Post-operative sepsis complicating this type of surgery can have disastrous consequences. No data is available in this country on the incidence of post-operative infection in Orthopaedic Surgery. Th...

aim and background: remote ischemic preconditioning introduces brief episodes of ischemia and reperfusion which reduces long term ischemia in orthopaedic surgery. the aim of this study was to evaluate hemodynamic and respiratory effects of remote ischemic preconditioning in lower extremity orthopaedic surgeries. methods: in this clinical trial 40 patients scheduled for lower extremity surgery w...

*Rose, T; **Peng, H; **Usas, A; **Kuroda, R; **Fu, FH; +**Huard, J *Department of Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany and Growth and Development Laboratory, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. +**Growth and Development Laboratory, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Department...

1Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Giresun University, Turkey 2Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Giresun University, Turkey 3Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Giresun University, Turkey 4Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Giresun Univ...

Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UPMC Center for Sports Medicine, University of Pittsbur...