management of traumatized patients after road accidents is in many countries still a serious challenge. apart from technical problems in management of car accidents, the recovery and rescue of the patients and their transport to hospital need exact planning and efficient strategy. present lecture compares the trauma management in an industrial country like germany with this in iran. present wor...

As health care in the United States transitions toward a value-based model, there is increasing interest in applying cost-effectiveness analysis within orthopedic surgery. Orthopedic trauma care has traditionally underemphasized economic analysis. The goals of this review were to identify US-based cost-utility analysis in orthopedic trauma, to assess the quality of the available evidence, and t...

After the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide, we will sooner or later encounter trauma patients with COVID-19 in thedeveloping countries. It is a challenging decision-making process for an orthopedic surgeon to provide the patients withthe best practice in the crisis. Here we discuss the issue in terms of clinical severity of COVID-19 pneumonia, priorityof orthopedic surgical trauma ...

During the course of novel coronavirus pandemic ,Shariati hospital in Tehran , as a tertiary center in both orthopedictrauma and COVID-19 , we detected 7 cases with definite diagnosis of COVID-19 and concomitant emergent orthopedicproblem.This paper represents considerations and special issues in managing and decision making in these patients.Level of evidence: IV

OBJECTIVES Orthopaedists often speculate how weather and school schedule may influence pediatric orthopedic trauma volume, but few studies have examined this. This study aims to determine: how do weather patterns, day, month, season and public school schedule influence the daily frequency of pediatric orthopedic trauma consults and admissions? METHODS With IRB approval, orthopedic trauma data...

1Department of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2Department of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, Akhtar Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Joint Reconstruction Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shahid Sadoughi Unive...

As an actively practicing orthopedic surgeon and one convinced of the value of hyperbaric oxygen (HBo2) for specific orthopedic-related conditions, I am frustrated that my orthopedic and trauma surgeon colleagues have not embraced this modality for crush injuries and compartment syndromes. I am not without experience in managing orthopedic trauma. I was the orthopedic surgeon coordinator of our...

Level I trauma centers frequently see trauma at or below the ankle, which requires consultation with the orthopedic surgery department. However, as podiatry programs begin to firmly establish themselves in more Level I trauma centers, their consultations increase, ultimately taking those once seen by orthopedic surgery. A review of the literature demonstrates that this paradigm shift has yet to...