An AAOS Opinion on Ethics and Professionalism is an official AAOS statement dealing with an ethical issue, which offers aspirational advice on how an orthopaedic surgeon can best deal with a particular situation or circumstance. Developed through a consensus process by the AAOS Ethics Committee, an Opinion on Ethics and Professionalism is not a product of a systematic review. An AAOS Opinion on...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the rate and type of inconsistencies between disclosures self-reported by physicians at a major academic meeting in the United States and industry-reported disclosures in the Open Payments database for a concordant time period. METHODS Disclosures for every first and last author from the United States with a medical degree of a podium or p...

Practice Guideline on Prevention of Orthopaedic Implant Infection in Patients Undergoing Dental Procedures The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the American Dental Association (ADA), with input from the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, American Association of Neurologic Surgeons, American Society of Plastic...

Multivitamin/multimineral complexes are the most common dietary supplements. Unlike minerals in foods that are incorporated in bioorganic structures, minerals in dietary supplements are typically in an inorganic form. These minerals can catalyze the generation of free radicals, thereby oxidizing antioxidants during digestion. Here we examine the ability of a matrix consisting of an amino acid a...

This paper presents optimisation of the geometry aircraft air–oil separator (AAOS) performed to improve device performance. For this type, most important operating parameters are oil quality, efficiency and pressure drop. In order understand relationships between geometric their impact on operation, an analysis was conducted using Response Surface Method (RSM). The made based results numerical ...

The recently published American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) guidelines for the prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients undergoing hip or knee surgery conflict with long-established and widely used American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) guidelines. Both guidelines accepted that the most important goal of thromboprophylaxis in patients undergoing hip or knee repl...

In 2012, The American Dental Association (ADA) in conjunction with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) issued an evidence-based guideline and evidence report with recommendations for prevention of orthopedic implant infection in patients undergoing dental procedures.1 In summary, there were three recommendations. The first recommendation was the practitioner might consider disco...

Hard economic times have been considered obstacles for environmental activism by many scholars, yet works, mostly based on case studies, alternative action organizations (AAOs) during of increasing livelihood vulnerability show considerable activism. We explain this inconsistency arguing that AAOs mobilizing at crisis opt direct action, using strategies citizens’ solidarity initiatives centerin...