Publications by authors named "Bianka Aceves Martin"

Medical schools have an important directive: to train the next generation of physicians. Faced with a primary care physician shortage, increasing numbers of under-represented faculty leaving academic medicine, low representation of women in leadership positions, and an ongoing pandemic, medical schools have a duty to implement solutions to alleviate these issues. Efforts have been made to create more diverse medical school classes, but those efforts are not mirrored in senior faculty demographics.

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Introduction: The incidence of residual deformity in the sagittal plane of the humerus (RDSPH) after nonoperative management of type II supracondylar humerus fractures (SCHFs), and the effects of such deformity on the overall arc of motion (AOM) of the elbow, are unknown. Our purpose was to analyze data collected prospectively on a large cohort of type II SCHF's to establish the incidence and extent of RDSPH, and the effects of the deformity on the elbow function, to further support our previously published recommendations on the treatment of type II SCHF.

Methods: The clinical data and radiographs of 1107 pediatric type II SCHFs enrolled in a prospective registry, and followed for a minimum of 8 weeks, were retrospectively reviewed.

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Telehealth has seldom been used in the field of pediatric orthopaedics. The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of telehealth as a tool for the follow-up of children with nondisplaced elbow fractures. We hypothesize that patients treated via telehealth will have comparable clinical outcomes as those treated at our institution, with increased patient satisfaction.

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Although there are many factors that are likely to influence the need for open reduction and percutaneous pinning (ORPF) in the treatment of pediatric supracondylar humerus fractures (SCHFs), the role of surgeon's experience (as represented by the total number of surgically treated SCHFs) on the need for ORPF has seldom been investigated. We reviewed the data on all completely displaced, pediatric SCHFs that were treated surgically by a single, fellowship-trained, pediatric orthopedic surgeon over the first 10 years of the surgeon's clinical practice. The incidence of ORPF was calculated as the percentage of open reductions among surgically treated, completely displaced, consecutive SCHFs at any given time during the 10-year period.

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