International Orthopaedics

The value of international perspectives in orthopaedics

It was 1997. I was at the end of my residency in the United States and was heading to the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute for a fellowship in Orthopaedic Oncology under the famed Professor Mario Campanacci. I thought I had received some pretty good training by the end of my residency at an excellent program in the United States. Based on that education, I held some truths to be selfevident. Any o...

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Outcomes evaluation in orthopaedics.

Surgical tourniquets in orthopaedics.

Higher levels of tourniquet pressure and higher pressure gradients beneath tourniquet cuffs are associated with a higher risk of nerve-related injury. Measurement of limb occlusion pressure can help to minimize tourniquet pressure levels and pressure gradients for individual patients and individual surgical procedures. Selective use of pneumatic, wider, and contoured tourniquet cuffs reduces to...

Ceramics in orthopaedics.