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
The August 2012 Hip &
Pelvis Roundup360 looks at: whether cemented hip replacement might be bad for your health; highly cross-linked polyethylene; iHOT-33 - a new hip outcome measure; hamstring injuries; total hip replacement; stemmed metal-on-metal THR; bipolar hemiarthroplasty, neuromuscular disease and dislocation; the high risk of secondary hemiarthroplasty; and whether we have to repair the labrum after all?
The April 2014 Trauma Roundup. 360 . looks at: is it safe to primarily close dog bite wounds?; conservative transfusion evidence based in hip fracture surgery; tibial nonunion is devastating to quality of life; sexual dysfunction after traumatic pelvic fracture; hemiarthroplasty versus fixation in displaced
The February 2014 Hip &
Pelvis Roundup360 looks at: length of stay; cementless metaphyseal fixation; mortality trends in over 400,000 total hip replacements; antibiotics in hip fracture surgery; blood supply to the femoral head after dislocation; resurfacing and THR in metal-on-metal replacement; diabetes and hip replacement; bone remodelling over two decades following hip replacement; and whether bisphosphonates affect acetabular fixation.
The August 2013 Trauma Roundup360 looks at: reverse oblique fractures do better with a cephalomedullary device; locking screws confer no advantage in tibial plateau fractures; it’s all about the radius of curvature; radius of curvature revisited; radial head replacement in complex elbow reconstruction; stem cells in early fracture haematoma; heterotrophic ossification in forearms; and Boston in perspective.
The April 2013 Research Roundup360 looks at: when the ‘residency cake’ is done; steroids, stem cells and tendons; what exactly is osteoarthritis; platelet-rich plasma; CRPS; d-Dimer for DVT; reducing bacterial adhesion; and fin or limb?
The August 2012 Trauma Roundup360 looks at: pelvic fractures, thromboembolism and the Japanese; venous thromboembolism risk after pelvic and acetabular fractures; the displaced clavicular fracture; whether to use a nail or plate for the displaced fracture of the distal tibia; the dangers of snowboarding; how to predict the outcome of lower leg blast injuries; compressive external fixation for the displaced patellar fracture; broken hips in Morocco; and spinal trauma in mainland China.
The June 2012 Trauma Roundup360 looks at: nerve injuries of warfare; the medical complications of earthquakes; the measuring of tissue pressures in compartment syndrome; the risk of plunging through the bone when drilling; bony nonunion and negative pressure therapy; surgery for the posteriorly dislocated hip; whether to use the sliding screw or intramedullary nail for the trochanteric fracture; antegrade interlocking nailing for the distal femoral fracture; and gunshot wounds to the pancreas.