INTRODUCTION Although more than 30 million patients in the United States undergo ambulatory surgery each year, it remains unclear what percentage of these patients receive a perioperative nerve block. We reviewed data from the 2006 National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery to determine the demographic, socioeconomic, geographic, and clinical factors associated with the likelihood of nerve block pla...

Doctor Shoja-ad-Din Sheikholeslamzadeh (also known as Dr. Sheikh) (1931-2014) was an outstanding orthopedic surgeon. He is credited for the establishment of the Iranian Association of Rehabilitation, Shafa Yahyaian Hospital as an Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Center, the Social Welfare Organization, Iran’s emergency dispatch center (115) and many other major projects that led to the upgrading o...

CELECOXIB ENHANCES THE RADIORESPONSE OF SECONDARY BONE TUMORS OF A HUMAN NONSMALL CELL LUNG CANCER VIA ANTIANGIOGENESIS IN VIVO Frank Michael Klenke, Amir Abdollahi, Heike Zieher, Martha-Maria Gebhard, Volker Ewerbeck, Peter Huber, Axel Sckell 1 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Inselspital, University of Berne, CH-3010 Berne, Switzerland 2 Department of Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, Chari...

BACKGROUND Successfully completing a surgical informed consent process is an important element of the preoperative consult. A previous study of Dutch general surgeons demonstrated that the implementation of SIC did not meet acceptable standards. However, the quality of the SIC process in the orthopedic surgical or plastic surgical arena is unknown. METHODS Following ethical approval, an onlin...

INTRODUCTION Recovery from orthopedic surgery is oriented towards restoring functional health outcomes while reducing hospital length of stay (LOS) and medical expenditures. Optimal pain management is a key to reaching these objectives. We sought to compare orthopedic surgery patients who received combination intravenous (IV) acetaminophen and IV opioid analgesia to those who received IV opioid...

BACKGROUND Increased costs and mortality associated with inappropriate blood transfusions have led to investigations about blood request and blood transfusion techniques. We investigated the transfusion status in patients who underwent orthopedic surgery in Poursina Hospital (Rasht, Iran) to optimizing blood usage and determine if a scheduled transfusion program for every orthopedic surgery cou...

Moving forward after YODA Bradley K. Weiner, MD*, Eric L. Hurwitz, DC, PhD, Mark L. Schoene, BS, Eugene J. Carragee, MD Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA Office of Public Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA The BackLetter, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, 450 Br...