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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Orthopedic Procedures"”.
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Ring-fencing : a strategy to enhance elective surgery performance
… for patients undergoing elective or non-emergent procedures. A ring-fenced elective orthopedic unit is only open to patients admitted to the hospital to undergo elective orthopedic procedures as they have been previously screened for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and staffed …
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Performance gap among nurses in splint application and crutch training
… a few members of the staff routinely do these procedures and results from a self- assessment survey showed that 50% of the staff need assistance when they are task to complete these orders. These factors revealed that a primary cause of this disparity is a gap in knowledge and skill. The data …
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Orthopedic Treatment Outcomes and Physical Therapists' Orthopedic Clinical Specialist Status
<p><strong>Background and Purpose</strong>. Orthopedic Clinical Specialist (OCS) certification has been available since 1989, however, no prospective studies exist demonstrating better patient outcomes with OCS certification. The purpose of this study was to prospectively explore if there are …
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Addressing Delirium in Hip Fracture Patients to Reduce Post-Operative Length of Stay
Pages iv-vi are misnumbered as pages vi-viii.
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Neurosurgery in Resource-Poor Settings: Improving Access to Surgical Education and Outcomes Analysis of Spine Surgery in a Training Hospital in Cambodia
BACKGROUND: Access to basic surgical care, and neurosurgery in particular, has historically been a neglected topic in the global health sphere. However, up to 30% of the global burden of disease is surgical in nature and great strides have been made in the past few years to spotlight and begin to …
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Retrieval Analysis of Necropsy Total Hip Replacements: Considerations Beyond the Implant
… of the most commonly performed and successful orthopedic procedures in the United States. More than 300,000 primary THAs and 40,000 revision THAs performed in the United States every year. While the need for revision surgeries can stem from a variety of causes, there have been, to the author’s …
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Development of the Sustained Release Analgesic Formulations for Rodents and a Novel In Vitro Model for Parenteral Formulations with the Character of a Level A IVIVC
… are often subjected to various painful surgical procedures such as laparotomy, thoracotomy or orthopedic procedures as well as non-surgical procedures such as the induction of arthritis. Any procedure that causes pain in humans is assumed to cause pain in animals too. It is the ethical obligation …