Virtual Environments have been used to train medical surgeons in orthopedic surgery. Using such simulators, residents and surgeons can develop or improve their skills in specific orthopedic surgical processes. In this section 2 of this report, a review of related work in the use of virtual environments in various surgical fields are presented. This includes orthopedic surgery, heart surgery, an...

Recently, the Hospital at Tabarre in Port-au-Prince Haiti was reopened by Operational Center of Paris—Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). This hospital is now purely a Trauma staffed five national general surgeons and orthopedic surgeons. MSF hopes that new trauma focus presence full complement experienced can enable this site to become one training sites for exptriate on their first humanitarian m...

Shoulder dislocations are a common condition seen by orthopedic surgeons and emergency medicine physicians. Shoulder dislocations typically present unilaterally and are anterior in nature. Bilateral simultaneous posterior shoulder dislocations are typically associated with seizure or electrocution and are more common than bilateral simultaneous anterior dislocations, which occur because of trau...

The assessment of bone healing and loosening of endoprosthesis material was long the primary indication for postoperative projection radiography and CT imaging of the hip joint following trauma and endoprosthesis implantation. With the increasing number of joint-preserving surgery, e. g. of surgical hip luxation and hip arthroscopy for the treatment of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), high-r...

in our country injury and its related sequelae are major public health problems. organizations that are responsible for dealing with these issues must be familiar with the impact of it on national health status and resources to have prioritized their control strategies and also target trauma centers. injury is the 5th cause of death in the whole population and the 1st in the age first decades o...

Acute Care Surgery is a discipline that includes trauma care, surgical critical care, and emergency surgery. It is organized in different models and provides mainly operative and nonoperative care. The aim of this study was to provide a demographic analysis of the care of surgical patients at the Emergency Department (ED) in a large teaching hospital in Shanghai, where general surgeons and orth...

abstract posttraumatic intravasation of fat and debris can lead to a cascade of events. hydroxyethyl starches (hes) markedly suppress neutrophil influx by decreasing pulmonary capillary permeability and facilitating tissue oxygenation by improving microcirculation. it was hypothesized that in hypoxemic femur injury patients undergoing operative stabilization, hes administration will prevent the...