BACKGROUND Although closed reduction and percutaneous pinning is accepted as the treatment of choice for displaced supracondylar fracture of the humerus, there are some debates on the pinning techniques, period of immobilization, elbow range of motion (ROM) exercise, and perceptions on the restoration of elbow ROM. This study was to investigate the consensus and different perspectives on the tr...

Despite advances in pain management, little formal teaching is given to practitioners and nurses in its use for postoperative orthopedic patients. The goal of our study was to determine the educational needs for orthopedic pain management of our residents, nurses, and physical therapists using a quantitative and qualitative assessment. The needs analysis was conducted in a 10-bed orthopedic uni...

Orthopedic surgery is a specialty of surgery dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal system in all age groups. Careers in orthopedic surgery span the spectrum from general orthopedics to those of subspecialty expertise in orthopedic trauma, hand, pediatrics, total joint, foot and ankle, sports medicine, and oncology to name a few.

among the power drills ( electrical/ pneumatic/battery ) used in orthopedic surgery, battery drill has got several advantages. surgeons in low resource settings could not routinely use orthopedic battery drills (obd) due to the prohibitive cost of good drills or poor quality of other drills. “hardware” or engineering battery drill (hbd) is a viable alternative to obd. hbd is easy to procure, ru...

during a cross-sectional study, patients who were admitted to the orthopedic department of the urmia university of medical sciences were asked about opium/opioid abuse. demographic characteristics, the pattern of consumption, the substance, the duration of the use, the duration of hospital stay and the cause of their injuries were recorded. among 2,867 patients, 74 (2.5%) patients (71 men and 3...

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 co...

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...