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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. 8, Issue 5 | Pages 4 - 10
1 Oct 2019
Tsoi K Samuel A Jeys LM Ashford RU Gregory JJ


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 8, Issue 4 | Pages 5 - 13
1 Aug 2019
Middleton R Khan T Alvand A


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 8, Issue 3 | Pages 3 - 7
1 Jun 2019
Patel NG Waterson HB Phillips JRA Toms AD


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. 7, Issue 4 | Pages 3 - 8
1 Aug 2018
White TO Carter TH


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 7, Issue 2 | Pages 2 - 7
1 Apr 2018
Das A Giddie J Ollivere B


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 6, Issue 6 | Pages 2 - 10
1 Dec 2017
Luokkala T Watts AC


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 6, Issue 4 | Pages 2 - 7
1 Aug 2017
Titchener AG Tambe AA Clark DI


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 5, Issue 3 | Pages 2 - 6
1 Jun 2016
Raglan M Scammell B


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 5, Issue 2 | Pages 3 - 6
1 Apr 2016
Patel M Eastley N Ashford R

This paper aims to provide evidence-based guidance for the general orthopaedic surgeon faced with the presentation of a potential soft tissue sarcoma in an extremity.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 4, Issue 4 | Pages 2 - 7
1 Aug 2015
Nicol S Jackson M Monsell F

This review explores recent advances in fixator design and used in contemporary orthopaedic practice including the management of bone loss, complex deformity and severe isolated limb injury.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 4, Issue 1 | Pages 2 - 5
1 Feb 2015
Wright GM Porteous MJ


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 3, Issue 5 | Pages 2 - 7
1 Oct 2014
Unsworth-Smith T Wood D

Obesity is a global epidemic of 2.1 billion people and a well known cause of osteoarthritis. Joint replacement in the obese attracts more complications, poorer outcomes and higher revision rates. It is a reversible condition and the fundamental principles of dealing with reversible medical conditions prior to elective total joint replacement should apply to obesity. The dilemma for orthopaedic surgeons is when to offer surgery in the face of a reversible condition, which if treated may obviate joint replacement and reduce the risk and severity of obesity related disease in both the medical arena and the field of orthopaedics.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 4, Issue 2 | Pages 2 - 6
1 Apr 2015
Lever CJ Robinson AHN

Ankle replacements have improved significantly since the first reported attempt at resurfacing of the talar dome in 1962. We are now at a stage where ankle replacement offers a viable option in the treatment of end-stage ankle arthritis. As the procedure becomes more successful, it is important to reflect and review the current surgical outcomes. This allows us to guide our patients in the treatment of end-stage ankle arthritis. What is the better surgical treatment – arthrodesis or replacement?


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 3, Issue 3 | Pages 2 - 8
1 Jun 2014
Phillips JRA Waterson HB Searle DJ Mandalia VI Toms AD

This is the second of a series of reviews of registries. This review looks specifically at worldwide registry data that have been collected on knee arthroplasty, what we have learned from their reports, and what the limitations are as to what we currently know.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 4, Issue 1 | Pages 6 - 11
1 Feb 2015
Manktelow A Bloch B

This review examines the future of total hip arthroplasty, aiming to avoid past mistakes


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 3, Issue 4 | Pages 2 - 4
1 Aug 2014
Monsell F


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 8 - 12
1 Oct 2013
Phillips JRA

Not all questions can be answered by prospective randomised controlled trials. Registries were introduced as a way of collecting information on joint replacements at a population level. They have helped to identify failing implants and the data have also been used to monitor the performance of individual surgeons. This review aims to look at some of the less well known registries that are currently being used worldwide, including those kept on knee ligaments, ankle arthroplasty, fractures and trauma.