Business of Orthopedics

Thu 24 May 2012

Orthopedic hardware and equipment for the beginner: Part 1. Pins and wires.

Harasen G. Can Vet J 2011 Sep 52 9 1025-6

Full paper:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22379207

Is ‘Stem Cell Therapy’ Becoming 21st Century Snake Oil?

1. Nicholas D. Jeffery BVSc, PhD, FRCVS, Diplomate ECVN & ECVS1, 2. Nicolas Granger DVM Diplomate ECVN2 1Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 2Oncovet, Avenue Paul Langevin, France Vet Surg February 2012 41 2 189-190

Full paper:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1532-950X.2011.00956.x/abstract

Intraoperative Contamination of the Suction Tip in Clean Orthopedic Surgeries in Dogs and Cats.

Medl N, Guerrero TG, Hölzle L, Hässig M, Lochbrunner S, Montavon PM. Clinic for Small Animal Surgery, Vetsuisse Faculty University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Vet Surg February 2012 41 2 254-260

Full paper:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1532-950X.2011.00883.x/abstract

Computer-assisted gait analysis of the dog: Comparison of two surgical techniques for the ruptured cranial cruciate ligament.

Böddeker J, Drüen S, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Fehr M, Nolte I, Wefstaedt P. Dr. med. vet. Patrick Wefstaedt, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Small Animal Clinic, Bünteweg 9, 30559 Hanover, Germany, Phone: +49 511 953 6304, Fax: +49 511 953 6204, E-mail: Patrick.Wefstaedt@tiho-hannover.de. VCOT 2012 25 1 11-21

Full paper:

http://www.schattauer.de/en/magazine/subject-areas/journals-a-z/vcot/issue/speci...

The dog as a preclinical model to evaluate interface morphology and micro-motion in cemented total knee replacement.

Mann KA, Miller MA, Khorasani M, Townsend KL, Allen MJ. Kenneth A. Mann, PhD, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, 3216 IHP, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, New York 13210, United States, Phone: +1 315 464 9963, Fax: +1 315 464 6638, E-mail: mannk@upstate VCOT 2012 25 1 1-10

Full paper:

http://www.schattauer.de/en/magazine/subject-areas/journals-a-z/vcot/issue/speci...

Evaluation of the effect of computed tomography scan protocols and freeform fabrication methods on bone biomodel accuracy.

Fitzwater KL, Marcellin-Little DJ, Harrysson OL, Osborne JA, Poindexter EC. Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606. AJVR 2011 Sep 72 9 1178-85

Presurgical hand antisepsis: concepts and current habits of veterinary surgeons.

Verwilghen D, Grulke S, Kampf G. Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals and Equids, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Liege, Liege, Belgium BODE Chemie GmbH, Scientific Affairs, Hamburg, Germany Institut für Hygiene und Umweltmedizin, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswa Vet Surg 2011 Jul 40 5 515-21

Reliability and validity of a visual analogue scale used by owners to measure chronic pain attributable to osteoarthritis in their dogs.

Hielm-Björkman AK, Kapatkin AS, Rita HJ. Department of Equine and Small Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland. AJVR 2011 May 72 5 601-7

Use of the cumulative summation technique to quantitatively assess a surgical learning curve: canine total hip replacement.

Hayes GM, Ramirez J, Langley Hobbs SJ. Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. gh327@cam.ac.uk Vet Surg 2011 Jan 40 1 1-5

tem generation and design testing of a questionnaire to assess degenerative joint disease-associated pain in cats.

Zamprogno H, Hansen BD, Bondell HD, Sumrell AT, Simpson W, Robertson ID, Brown J, Pease AP, Roe SC, Hardie EM, Wheeler SJ, Lascelles BD. Comparative Pain Research Laboratory & Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA. AJVR 2010 Dec 71 12 1417-24