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Volume 2, Issue 5 October 2013

Editorial
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B. J. Ollivere
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Feature
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J. G. Penn-Barwell T. K. Rowlands
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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.


Joint registries Pages 8 - 12
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J. R. A. Phillips
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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.


Roundup
Hip & Pelvis Pages 16 - 18
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The October 2013 Hip & Pelvis Roundup360 looks at: Young and impinging; Clothes, weather and femoral heads?; Go long, go cemented; Surgical repair of the abductors?; Aspirin for DVT prophylaxis?; Ceramic-on-polyethylene: a low-wear solution?; ALVAL and ASR™: the story continues….; Salvaging Legg-Calve-Perthes’ disease


Knee Pages 19 - 21
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The October 2013 Knee Roundup360 looks at: Make it easy, release the MCL; Do patients remember clinical information in day surgery?; Osteoarthritis and arthroscopy?; How best to double your bundles; When to operate for infection; Cementless unicompartment knee replacement?; Tibial tubercle-trochlear groove confusion; Tarts, cherries and osteoarthritis


Foot & Ankle Pages 22 - 24
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The October 2013 Foot & Ankle Roundup360 looks at: Operative treatment of calcaneal fractures advantageous in the long term?; Varus ankles and arthroplasty; Reducing autograft complications in foot and ankle surgery; The biomechanics of ECP in plantar fasciitis; Minimally invasive first ray surgery; Alcohol: better drunk than injected?; Is it different in the foot?; It’s all about the temperature


Wrist & Hand Pages 24 - 27
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The October 2013 Wrist & Hand Roundup360 looks at: Cost effectiveness of Dupuytren’s surgery; A 'new horizon' in distal radius imaging; Undisplaced means undisplaced; The mystery of the distal radial fracture continues; How thick is thick enough?: articular cartilage step off revisited; Is the midcarpal joint more important than we think?; Plates and Kirschner wires; Better early results with an IM nail?


Shoulder & Elbow Pages 27 - 29
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The October 2013 Shoulder & Elbow Roundup360 looks at: Deltoid impairment not necessarily a contra-indication for shoulder arthroplasty; The tricky radiograph; Not so asymptomatic cuff tears; Total shoulder arthroplasty: kinder on the glenoid; Barbotage for calcific tendonitis; What happens to the arthritic glenoid?; Two screws a screw too few?; Sloppy hinge best for elbow arthroplasty.


Spine Pages 29 - 31
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The October 2013 Spine Roundup360 looks at: Standing straighter may reduce falls; Operative management of congenital kyphosis; Athletic discectomy; Lumbar spine stenosis worsens with time; Flexible stabilisation?: spinal stenosis revisited; Do epidural steroids cause spinal fractures?; Who does well with cervical myelopathy?; Secretly adverse to BMP-2?


Trauma Pages 32 - 34
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The October 2013 Trauma Roundup360 looks at: Radiological, electromagnetic or just leave it out altogether?: distal locking in intramedullary nailing; Internal fixation of radiation-induced pathological fractures of the femur has a high rate of failure; Obesity and trauma; Short and sweet?: antibiotics in open fractures; Extremity injuries more important than previously thought?; Cement nails tiptop for osteomyelitis; Oxygen measurements for compartment syndrome?


Oncology Pages 34 - 36
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The October 2013 Oncology Roundup360 looks at: En bloc resection, irradiation and re-implantation; Metastasis and osteosarcoma; Mobile spine and osteosarcoma; Denosumab miraculous for GCT; Fevers, megaprostheses and sarcomas; PET and prognosis; Canine sarcomas not so different?; Bone cement and giant cell tumours.


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The October 2013 Children’s orthopaedics Roundup360 looks at: Half a century of Pavlik treatment; Step away from the child!: trends in fracture management; Posterolateral rotatory elbow instability in children; Osteochondral lesions undiagnosed in patellar dislocations; Oral bisphosphonates in osteogenesis imperfecta; Crossed or parallel pins in supracondylar fractures?; Not too late nor too early: getting epiphysiodesis right; Fixation of supramalleolar osteotomies.


Research Pages 39 - 41
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The October 2013 Research Roundup360 looks at: Orthopaedics: a dangerous profession?; Freezing and biomarkers for bone turnover; Herniation or degeneration first?; MARS MRI and metallosis; Programmed cell death in partial thickness cuff tears; Lead glasses for trauma surgery?; Smoking inhibits bone healing; Optimising polyethylene microstructure.


Research
The Great Debate Pages 42 - 42
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J. R. A. Phillips
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Denosumab Pages 43 - 44
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R. J. Grimer
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