Atlas of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery.

Perioperative pain control in pediatric patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery.

Management of perioperative pain is critical in the pediatric patient undergoing orthopaedic surgery. A variety of modalities can be used to manage pain and optimize recovery and patient satisfaction, including nonopioid and opioid analgesia; local anesthetic injection; and regional analgesia such as intrathecal morphine, epidural therapy, and peripheral nerve blocks. Acute pain management can ...

Netter’s Concise Atlas of Orthopaedic Anatomy

N e t te r ' s C o n c i s e A t l a s o f O r t h o p a e d i c A n a to my In this text, Thompson has combined the brilliant and highly detailed images composed by Frank Netter, along with clinically relevant material to produce a condensed, but detailed reference. The author's intention was to produce a book of this nature so that students would not get as frustrated as he did when he was a ...

Orthopaedic surgery.

Ethics in orthopaedic surgery.

©2005 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.87B11. 16936 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2005;87-B:1449-51. Medicine, law and religion are the three traditional learned professions. With professionalism should come both privilege and responsibility. As surgeons we study to achieve specialised knowledge and supplement this with training and experience. Our patien...

Ximelagatran in orthopaedic surgery.

Ximelagatran represents the first new oral anticoagulant since the introduction of warfarin almost 60 years ago, and has been evaluated for the treatment and prevention of a range of venous and arterial thromboembolic disorders. The MElagatran THRomboprophylaxis in Orthopaedic surgery (METHRO) and EXpanded PRophylaxis Evaluation Surgery Study (EXPRESS) studies have investigated the efficacy and...