Patient Resilience Does Not Conclusively Affect Clinical Outcomes Associated With Arthroscopic Surgery but Substantial Limitations of the Literature Exist.

Purpose: To determine whether low resilience is predictive of worse patient-reported outcomes (PROs) or diminished improvements in clinical outcomes after joint preserving and arthroscopic surgery.

Methods: A comprehensive search of PubMed, Medline, Embase, and Science Direct was performed on September 28, 2022, for studies investigating the relationship between resilience and PROs after arthroscopic surgery in accordance with the Preferred Reported Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses guidelines.

Results: Nine articles (level II-IV studies) were included in the final analysis.

Integrated lower extremity trauma simulator.

Severe limb trauma is prevalent in deployed U.S. Military forces since the advent of body armor.

Conversion from external fixation to definitive fixation: periarticular injuries.

Extremity injuries sustained by uniformed service combatants pose a significant challenge to military orthopaedic surgeons. The wounding mechanisms in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom consist of blasts, penetrating injuries, and blunt injuries. The mortality of warriors has decreased overall because of the improvements in head, neck, and torso body armor.

The incidence of neurovascular injury during external fixator placement without radiographic assistance for lower extremity diaphyseal fractures: a cadaveric study.

Background: During military operations or mass casualty situations, trauma surgeons are called on to place external fixation without the use of fluoroscopy. However, the safety and efficacy of this procedure has not been investigated.

Methods: Orthopedic surgeons, with varying experience, externally stabilized 20 fractured cadaver femora and tibiae.

Identification of the optimal intercondylar starting point for retrograde femoral nailing: an anatomic study.

Background: Retrograde nailing of femoral shaft fractures is an effective and increasingly more popular method of fracture fixation. However, concern remains regarding the effect of the intercondylar entry-portal location on knee function.

Methods: The optimal entry-portal location was identified in cadaver femurs.