The October 2012 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360. looks at: magnetic growing rods and scoliosis correction; maintaining alignment after manipulation of a radial shaft fracture; Glaswegian children and swellings of obscure origin; long-term outcome of femoral derotation osteotomy in cerebral palsy; lower-leg fractures and compartment syndrome in children; fractures of the radial neck in children; management of the paediatric Monteggia fracture; and missing the dislocated hip in Western Australia

The February 2015 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: Hip dislocation in children with CTEV: two decades of experience; Population-based prevention of DDH in cerebral palsy: 20 years’ experience; Shoulder derotation in congenital plexus palsy; Back pain in the paediatric population: could MRI be the answer?; Intercondylar fracture of the humerus in children; The Dunn osteotomy in SUFE; Radiocapitellar line a myth!; Do ‘flatfooted’ children suffer?

The October 2015 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: Radiographic follow-up of DDH; When the supracondylar goes wrong; Apophyseal avulsion fractures; The ‘pulled elbow’; Surgical treatment of active or aggressive aneurysmal bone cysts in children; Improving stability in supracondylar fractures; Biological reconstruction may be preferable in children’s osteosarcoma; The paediatric hip fracture

The October 2014 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: spondylolisthesis management strategies; not all cervical collars are even; quality of life with Legg-Calve-Perthe’s disease; femoral shaft fractures in children; percutaneous trigger thumb release – avoid at all costs in children; predicting repeat surgical intervention in acute osteomyelitis; and C-Arm position inconsequential in radiation exposure

The April 2012 Wrist & Hand Roundup. 360 . looks at releasing the trigger finger, function in the osteoarthritic hand, complex regional pain syndrome, arthroscopic ligamentoplasty for the injured scapholunate ligament, self-concept and upper limb deformities in children, wrist arthroscopy in children, internal or external fixation for the fractured distal radius, nerve grafting, splinting the PIPJ contracture, and finding the stalk of a dorsal wrist ganglion

The December 2015 Trauma Roundup. 360 . looks at: Delay to surgery in hip fracture; Hexapod fixators in the management of hypertrophic tibial nonunions; Thromboembolism after nailing pathological fractures; Tibial plateau fracture patterns under the spotlight; The health economic effects of long bone nonunion; Adverse outcomes in trauma; The sacral screw in children; Treating the contralateral SUFE

The August 2013 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at: a multilevel approach to equinus gait; whether screening leads to needless intervention; salvage of subcapital slipped epiphysis; growing prostheses for children’s oncology; flexible nailing revisited; ultrasound and the pink pulseless hand; and slipping forearm fractures

In a decidedly upper limb themed series of reviews this edition of Cochrane Corner summarises four new and updated reviews published by the Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma Group over the last few months. The tenacious reviewers at the Cochrane collaboration have turned their beady eyes to conservative treatments for shoulder dislocations and clavicle fractures along with evaluation of femoral nerve blocks in knee replacement and how to best manage entrapment injuries in children.

The October 2013 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360. looks at: Half a century of Pavlik treatment; Step away from the child!: trends in fracture management; Posterolateral rotatory elbow instability in children; Osteochondral lesions undiagnosed in patellar dislocations; Oral bisphosphonates in osteogenesis imperfecta; Crossed or parallel pins in supracondylar fractures?; Not too late nor too early: getting epiphysiodesis right; Fixation of supramalleolar osteotomies

The April 2012 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup. 360 . looks at osteonecrosis of the femoral head and surgery for dysplasia, femoral head blood flow during surgery, femoroacetabular impingement and sport in adolescence, the Drehmann sign, a predictive algorithm for septic arthritis, ACL reconstruction and arthrofibrosis in children, spinal cord monitoring for those less than four years old, arthroereisis for the flexible flat foot, fixing the displaced lateral humeral fracture, and mobile phones and inclinometer applications

The October 2014 Trauma Roundup. 360 . looks at: proximal humeral fractures in children; quadrilateral surface plates in transverse acetabular fractures; sleep deprivation and poor outcomes in trauma; bipolar hemiarthroplasty; skeletal traction; forefoot fractures; telemedicine in trauma; ketamine infusion for orthopaedic injuries; and improved functional outcomes seen with trauma networks