surgery
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Sports Medicine
So Which Sport Results in the Most Surgeries?
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. You can’t make improvements if you don’t know where the “trouble spots” are. In sports medicine,…
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Extremities
Topical Vancomycin Results in Fewer Staph aureus Infections
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Citing a study indicating that Staphylococcus aureus is the most frequent organism encountered in fracture surgery…
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Recon
Anterior Tension Band Plating for Patella Fractures: Viable, but…
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. New work from a Level 1 trauma center, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, has looked…
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Recon
New Study Helps Forecast Functional Recovery Time and Return to Activities Following Hip Fracture Surgery
ROSEMONT, Ill., Jan. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — For patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture, there are still unknowns regarding the return to…
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Hospitals
Safe Orthopaedics Launches SORA, The Virtual Operating Room Assistant For Spine Surgery
A breakthrough innovation for surgeons and hospital managersA smart and evolutive multifunction platform for inventory management, data transmission, product support…
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Recon
Largest Study of Its Kind Looks at Preop, Postop Functional Outcomes in Reconstructed Scapula Process Malunions and/or Nonunions
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. A new retrospective case series performed at a Level I trauma center has attempted to fill…
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Hospitals
Opioid Prescribing: Government Rules PLUS Institutional Initiatives=Better Results
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. When researchers from NYU Langone Health reviewed data on 20,483 patients who underwent orthopedic procedures, they…
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Regulatory
Medtronic Strengthens Leadership in Navigated, Robotic Spine Surgery with FDA Clearance of Midas Rex™ Drills and Navigated Disc Prep and Interbodies for U.S. with Mazor™ Robotic Guidance System
DUBLIN, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the use of…
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Spine
HSS Bone Study Sheds Light on Complications After Spinal Surgery
NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The microscopic structure of bone appears to predict which patients will experience poor outcomes after…
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Extremities
Exactech Expands Active Intelligence® Portfolio with Chime Clinical Exchange App
December 14, 2020 GAINESVILLE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Exactech, a developer and producer of innovative implants, instrumentation and smart solutions for joint replacement…
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Hospitals
Vuzix Receives Follow-on Smart Glasses Orders from Pixee Medical to Support European Commercialization of their Augmented Reality Smart Glasses Solution for Orthopedic Surgery
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), (“Vuzix” or, the “Company”), a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR)…
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Recon
Exactech Launches Predict+™, First Machine Learning-Based Software that Informs Surgeons with Patient-Specific Outcomes Predictions After Shoulder Replacement Surgery
November 30, 2020 GAINESVILLE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Exactech, a developer and producer of innovative implants, instrumentation and the Active Intelligence® platform of technologies…
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Spine
Spine Surgery: Clinically Relevant Results ≠ Satisfaction?
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. What’s a researcher to think when patients’ pain levels drop, but they remain dissatisfied? New multicenter…
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Hospitals
New Spinal Fusion Surgery Technique Leads to Better Outcomes, Reduced OR Time and Length of Stay for Patients
NEW YORK, Nov. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — A novel approach to spinal fusion surgery results in a reduction of blood loss during…
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Spine
Surgeons’ Expectations More Accurate Than Patients’ Expectations in Predicting Patient-Reported Outcomes After Lumbar Spine Surgery
NEW YORK, Nov. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Surgeons’ preoperative expectations were more accurate than patients’ expectations in predicting patient-reported outcomes two years after…
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