The Use of Biologics in NFL Athletes: An Expert Consensus of NFL Team Physicians.

Background: There is a lack of published information outlining the use of biologics in National Football League (NFL) athletes and limited data to guide biologic treatment strategies.

Purpose: To develop a consensus on the use of biologics among NFL team physicians.

Study Design: Consensus statement.

Monitoring Postoperative Opioid Use Following Simple Arthroscopic Meniscectomy: A Performance-Improvement Strategy for Prescribing Recommendations and Community Safety.

Background: Orthopaedic surgeons are confronted with a difficult dilemma: managing acute pain postoperatively and balancing the risk of prescription opioid use. To our knowledge, a prospective performance-improvement project providing opioid-prescription recommendations based on the actual amounts of usual and customary medication consumed following simple knee meniscectomy has not been described.

Methods: One hundred and two patients undergoing arthroscopic knee meniscectomy prospectively recorded postoperative pain medications in a pain journal.

A precision medicine approach to a patient with unresolved pain following orthopedic surgery: a case report.

Background: Precision medicine is a promising technology in patient care that combines genetic analysis with clinical data, such as health, behavioral, functional, environment, and lifestyle information. Here we present the case of a 54-year old woman who, following an accident, had uncontrolled chronic pain and was subsequently labeled a drug seeker.

Case Presentation: A 54-year-old white woman who was experiencing severe calf pain was referred for treatment.

Reliability of the IOLMaster in axial length evaluation in silicone oil-filled eyes.

Purpose: To assess the reliability of IOLMaster in axial length (AL) measurement in phakic silicone oil-filled vs pseudophakic saline-filled eyes.

Methods: Ten eyes of 10 patients, vitrectomized with silicone oil tamponade and scleral buckled with significant lens opacity were enrolled. Optical biometry with IOLMaster (Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Germany) was performed 1 day before and 1 week after silicone oil removal and phacoemulsification with artificial intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in order to assess changes in AL measurements.

Cataract surgery as a risk factor for retinal detachment in very highly myopic eyes.

Purpose: To evaluate the incidence of retinal detachment (RD) after cataract surgery performed by phacoemulsification in very highly myopic eyes.

Design: Retrospective, paired-eye, case-control trial.

Participants And Intervention: We assessed the development of RD in 930 eyes from 930 subjects (mean age = 62.