Hip and Knee replacement fellowship Bombay Hospital,Mumbai, India, Speciality: General orthopaedics, Sports medicine, Trauma, Arthroscopy, Adult reconstruction Aims of Fellowship: To provide either clinical or observatory experience Period of Fellowship: Long-term (more than 3 months) Contact Person for Applications: Gurav Suraj Application Address: Bombay Hospital, h/7 Prathamesh, v s Marg, Prabhadevi, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400025, India […]
Archives for May 2011
Use of Povidone I and H2O2 to reduce spinal infections
Prevention of post-operative infections in spine surgery by wound irrigation with a solution of povidone–iodine and hydrogen peroxide Simone Ulivieri, Stefano Toninelli, Carlo Petrini, Antonio Giorgio and Giuseppe Oliveri Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2011. doi:10.1007/s00402-011-1262-0. Abstract Introduction Starting from January 2009, we systematically irrigated the surgical wounds of patients undergoing spine surgery with a solution […]
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GENERAL TOPICS G01: Initial Assessment and Management of the Multiply Injured Patient G02: Assessment, Management and Decision Making in the Treatment of Polytrauma Patients with Head Injuries* G03: Evaluation and Treatment of Vascular Injury G04: Compartment Syndrome G05: ARDS, Fat Embolism and Thromoembolic Disease in the Orthopaedic Trauma Patient G06a: Fracture Classification G06b: Fracture Classification b G07: Biology of Bone Repair G08: Biomechanics of […]
New test detects early osteolysis after arthroplasty
Investigators at the University of Nebraska Medical Centre developed a system to detect early inflammation and osteolysis associated with arthroplasty The study was published in the Molecular pharmaceuticals Journal by Ren et al.. They developed a polymer-based system — a N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide (HPMA) copolymer-based optical imaging contrast agent (P-IRDye) — for imaging the inflammation that is associated […]