Patient-centered care in the conservative management of an unstable proximal phalanx fracture: A case report.

Background: Proximal phalangeal fractures are common yet challenging due to their inherent instability.

Purpose: This study presents a case for patient-centered care and a nonsurgical management pathway.

Study Design: Case report.

Lower Extremity Traumatic Wound Management: Relative Significance of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in the Orthopedic Setting.

Lower extremity traumatic wounds are associated with numerous perioperative challenges. Their etiologies determine the characteristics and extent of the injury. The timing of subsequent surgical intervention and wound healing optimization after lower extremity trauma are integral to successful perioperative lower extremity wound management.

Surgical delay in abdominal based flap surgery: a scoping review.

Background: The abdominal donor site is the most common flap used for breast reconstruction, with flap necrosis a feared complication. The technique of surgical 'delay' involves the inducing of relative ischemia to promote neovascularisation, amongst other metabolic adaptations, and has been used to augment flap vascularity and reduce this complication. There is significant variability in the manner in which flap surgery and surgical delay may be performed, such as the vessels ligated, the presence and degree of flap elevation, and the decision to harvest muscle with the flap, amongst other factors.