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Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 2, Issue 5 | Pages 2 - 7
1 Oct 2013
Penn-Barwell JG Rowlands TK

Blast and ballistic weapons used on the battlefield cause devastating injuries rarely seen outside armed conflict. These extremely high-energy injuries predominantly affect the limbs and are usually heavily contaminated with soil, foliage, clothing and even tissue from other casualties. Once life-threatening haemorrhage has been addressed, the military surgeon’s priority is to control infection. . Combining historical knowledge from previous conflicts with more recent experience has resulted in a systematic approach to these injuries. Urgent debridement of necrotic and severely contaminated tissue, irrigation and local and systemic antibiotics are the basis of management. These principles have resulted in successful healing of previously unsurvivable wounds. Healthy tissue must be retained for future reconstruction, vulnerable but viable tissue protected to allow survival and avascular tissue removed with all contamination. . While recent technological and scientific advances have offered some advantages, they must be judged in the context of a hard-won historical knowledge of these wounds. This approach is applicable to comparable civilian injury patterns. One of the few potential benefits of war is the associated improvement in our understanding of treating the severely injured; for this positive effect to be realised these experiences must be shared


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 7, Issue 6 | Pages 18 - 21
1 Dec 2018


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 8, Issue 3 | Pages 13 - 16
1 Jun 2019


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 7, Issue 5 | Pages 28 - 30
1 Oct 2018


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 4, Issue 5 | Pages 22 - 24
1 Oct 2015

The October 2015 Trauma Roundup360 looks at: PCA not the best in resuscitation; Impact of trauma centre care; Quality of life after a hip fracture; Recovery and severity of injury: open tibial fractures in the spotlight; Assessment of the triplane fractures; Signs of an unstable paediatric pelvis; Safe insertion of SI screws: are two views required?; Post-operative delirium under the spotlight; Psychological effects of fractures; K-wires cost effective in DRAFFT


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 5, Issue 1 | Pages 23 - 24
1 Feb 2016


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 1, Issue 6 | Pages 34 - 35
1 Dec 2012
Rowlands LCTK


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 1, Issue 5 | Pages 2 - 7
1 Oct 2012
Belmont Jr PJ Hetz S Potter BK

We live in troubled times. Increased opposition reliance on explosive devices, the widespread use of individual and vehicular body armour, and the improved survival of combat casualties have created many complex musculoskeletal injuries in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Explosive mechanisms of injury account for 75% of all musculoskeletal combat casualties. Throughout all the echelons of care medical staff practice consistent treatment strategies of damage control orthopaedics including tourniquets, antibiotics, external fixation, selective amputations and vacuum-assisted closure. Complications, particularly infection and heterotopic ossification, remain frequent, and re-operations are common. Meanwhile, non-combat musculoskeletal casualties are three times more frequent than those derived from combat and account for nearly 50% of all musculoskeletal casualties requiring evacuation from the combat zone.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 5, Issue 6 | Pages 8 - 12
1 Dec 2016
Kumar KHS Lawrence JE Khanduja V


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 1, Issue 5 | Pages 24 - 26
1 Oct 2012

The October 2012 Trauma Roundup360 looks at: which patients die from pelvic ring fractures; monolateral distraction osteogenesis; surgical management of pelvic and peroneal blast injuries; weekend warriors at risk of going AWOL; early experience with the locking attachment plate; and fibula nailing - an alternate, and viable technique.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 5, Issue 4 | Pages 20 - 22
1 Aug 2016


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 2, Issue 4 | Pages 12 - 15
1 Aug 2013

The August 2013 Foot & Ankle Roundup360 looks at: mobility, ankles and fractures; hindfoot nailing: not such a bad option after all?; little treatment benefit for blood injection in tendonitis; fixed bearing ankles successful in the short term; hindfoot motion following STAR ankle replacement; minimally invasive calcaneal fracture fixation?; pes planus in adolescents; and subluxing peroneals and groove deepening


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 4, Issue 3 | Pages 23 - 24
1 Jun 2015

The June 2015 Trauma Roundup360 looks at: HIV-related implant surgery in trauma; Major transfusion under the spotlight; Surgery and mortality in elderly acetabular fractures; Traction pin safety; Obesity and trauma; Salvage of acetabular fixation in the longer term


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 1, Issue 6 | Pages 19 - 21
1 Dec 2012

The December 2012 Shoulder & Elbow Roundup360 looks at: whether allograft is biomechanically superior in large Hill-Sachs defects; glenoid bone loss in shoulder dislocators; repairing irreparable cuff tears; acromioclavicular joint injuries; whether more radiographs equals more surgery; whether reverse TSR is cheaper than hemiarthroplasty; autologous chondrocyte implantation in the shoulder; and fracture of the clavicle.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 3, Issue 4 | Pages 5 - 8
1 Aug 2014
Budd H Ollivere B Norrish A

While the demand for orthopaedic surgical expertise in the developing world is in critically short supply, short-term remedy from visiting doctors cannot solve this long-term healthcare problem. Capacity building by senior and training orthopaedic surgeons from established Western training programmes can offer a significant contribution to the orthopaedic patient in the developing world and the gains for those visiting are extremely valuable. We report on several visits by a UK orthopaedic team to a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan and discuss the operative and non-operative case mix and the benefits in terms of local capacity building and the unique experience of those visiting.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 2, Issue 5 | Pages 1 - 1
1 Oct 2013
Ollivere BJ


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 1, Issue 5 | Pages 1 - 1
1 Oct 2012
Villar RN



Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 1, Issue 5 | Pages 21 - 24
1 Oct 2012

The October 2012 Spine Roundup360 looks at: a Japanese questionnaire at work in Iran; curve progression in degenerative lumbar scoliosis; the cause of foot drop; the issue of avoiding the spinal cord at scoliosis surgery; ballistic injuries to the cervical spine; minimally invasive oblique lumbar interbody fusion; readmission rates after spinal surgery; clinical complications and the severely injured cervical spine; and stabilising the thoracolumbar burst fracture.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 1, Issue 2 | Pages 25 - 27
1 Apr 2012

The April 2012 Trauma Roundup360 looks at fibula-pro-tibia plating, galeazzi fractures, distal radial fractures in the over 65s, transverse sacral fractures, acute dislocation of the knee, posterior malleolar fractures, immobilising the broken scaphoid, the terrible triad, lower limb amputation after trauma, and whiplash injuries