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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Journal Review for 08 Aug 2011


Ability of lower-extremity injury severity scores to predict functional outcome after limb salvage. Ly TV, Travison TG, Castillo RC, Bosse MJ, MacKenzie EJ; LEAP Study Group. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2008 Aug;90(8):1738-43. PMID: 18676906 Free PMC Article
Study to Prospectively Evaluate Reamed Intramedullary Nails in Patients with Tibial Fractures Investigators, Bhandari M, Guyatt G, Tornetta P 3rd, Schemitsch EH, Swiontkowski M, Sanders D, Walter SD. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2008 Dec;90(12):2567-78. PMID: 19047701 Free PMC Article
The insensate foot following severe lower extremity trauma: an indication for amputation? Bosse MJ, McCarthy ML, Jones AL, Webb LX, Sims SH, Sanders RW, MacKenzie EJ; Lower Extremity Assessment Project (LEAP) Study Group. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2005 Dec;87(12):2601-8. PMID: 16322607
Recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 in open tibial fractures. A subgroup analysis of data combined from two prospective randomized studies. Swiontkowski MF, Aro HT, Donell S, Esterhai JL, Goulet J, Jones A, Kregor PJ, Nordsletten L, Paiement G, Patel A. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2006 Jun;88(6):1258-65. PMID:  16757759  [PDF] from metrohealth.org

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Postop wound Infections

Postop Ortho Wound Infections
Search: ("Orthopedics"[Mesh] OR orthopedic OR orthopedics OR orthopaedic OR orthopaedics) AND ("Postoperative Period"[Mesh] OR postoperative OR postop OR post-operative) AND ("Surgical Wound Infection"[Mesh] OR ((surgical OR postoperative) AND (wound OR wounds) AND (infection OR infection))) AND (Humans[Mesh] AND English[lang])

Prevention of Postop Ortho Wound Infections
Search: (("Orthopedics"[Mesh] OR orthopedic OR orthopedics OR orthopaedic OR orthopaedics) AND ("Postoperative Period"[Mesh] OR postoperative OR postop OR post-operative) AND ("Surgical Wound Infection"[Mesh] OR ((surgical OR postoperative) AND (wound OR wounds) AND (infection OR infection))) AND (Humans[Mesh] AND English[lang])) AND (("Secondary Prevention"[Mesh]) OR "prevention and control"[Subheading] OR prevention OR preventions OR preventative OR prophylaxis AND (Humans[Mesh] AND English[lang])) AND (Humans[Mesh] AND English[lang])

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Heterotopic Ossification Treatment & Prevention

HO Articles Not Yet Indexed in Medline
Limits: published in the last 1 year

HO Prevention & Control
HO/Prevention & Control as [Major Topic] and Limits: Humans, Meta-Analysis, Practice Guideline, Randomized Controlled Trial, Review, English

HO Prevention & Control
HO/Prevention & Control as [Major Topic] and Limits: Humans, English, Systematic Reviews

HO Radiotherapy
HO/Radiotherapy as [Major Topic] and Limits: Humans, Meta-Analysis, Practice Guideline, Randomized Controlled Trial, Review, English.  Note: no results for HO/Radiotherapy as [Major Topic] and Limits: Humans, English, Systematic Reviews as of 19 May 2011.

HO Therapy
HO/Therapy as [Major Topic] and Limits: Humans, Meta-Analysis, Practice Guideline, Randomized Controlled Trial, Review, English. 

HO Therapy
HO/Therapy as [Major Topic] and Limits: Humans, English, Systematic Reviews

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Syndesmotic bone screws

Weight Bearing
Pubmed Concepts: ankle fx and syndesmosis and bone screws and fixation and outcome and wt bearing

Tissue Healing
Pubmed Concepts: ankle fx and syndesmosis and bone screws and fixation and outcome and tissue healing 

Fibular Position
Pubmed Concepts: ankle fx and syndesmosis and bone screws and fixation and outcome and fibular position

Outcomes
Pubmed Concepts: ankle fx and syndesmosis and bone screws and fixation and outcome and outcome