PURPOSE OF REVIEW Lower extremity angular deformities are among the most common nontraumatic conditions in children being referred to pediatric orthopedists. Understanding of this abnormality is essential for pediatricians and primary caregivers. There is a development in the surgical management of these problems that has improved the quality of care of affected children and adolescents. RECE...

Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is an inherited muscle disorder suffered by patients who undergo a stressful situation or acute trauma or who have been given certain anesthetic agents. 1,2 MH has been called the most common cause of anesthesiarelated death in North America, contributing a large percentage of the 15,000 to 20,000 of such deaths recorded annually.3 The 53% mortality rate of today com...

Seizures are a rare and unexpected complication following spinal surgery. There is paucity of literature about seizure occurrence following spinal surgery including dysraphism. Only a few isolated reports in the form of case reports have been published in literature. So still this entity remains unfamiliar for neurosurgeons and orthopedists operating on traumatic spinal cases or spinal dysraphi...

The care of children has been integral in the historic development of orthopedics as a surgical special‐ ty. Formal fellowship training of pediatric orthopedists, however, only began in the late 1970s. Many orthopedic generalists provide emergency orthopedic care for children, and when on call, much of their charge is to determine the triage and treatment of traumatic injuries. This article wil...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the degree of knowledge among professionals who treat fractures using the recommended technique, with regard to correlating the nail with the entry point that is considered appropriate. METHODS A questionnaire that presented five types of nail and simulated a transverse diaphyseal fracture of the femur was developed. RESULTS Responses regarding the entry points correspo...

The care of children has been integral in the historic development of orthopedics as a surgical special‐ ty. Formal fellowship training of pediatric orthopedists, however, only began in the late 1970s. Many orthopedic generalists provide emergency orthopedic care for children, and when on call, much of their charge is to determine the triage and treatment of traumatic injuries. This article wil...

Metaphysis cancellous bone fracture is one of the most common fracture types in clinical orthopedic practice. The specialized healing process of cancellous bone fracture has long been ignored by the academic society. Comparing with diaphyseal cortical bone healing, cancellous bone healing showed less bone tissue necrosis, barely any hematoma formation, limited inflammation events and no externa...

The suprascapular nerve block is a reproducible, reliable, and extremely effective treatment method in shoulder pain control. This method has been widely used by professionals in clinical practice such as rheumatologists, orthopedists, neurologists, and pain specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases such as irreparable rotator cuff injury, rheumatoid arthritis, stroke sequelae, and adhes...

Successful treatment of many musculoskeletal infections often requires an extended course of outpatient antimicrobial therapy, much of which is administered parenterally outside the hospital under the guidance of an infectious disease specialist. Delivery of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) may occur in physicians' offices, ambulatory infusion centers, or hospital clinics but ...