Publications by authors named "Gabrielle Kuhn"
Introduction: A minority of geriatric hip fracture patients pursue non-operative treatment. Compared with surgical patients, non-operative patients have higher mortality rates. However, patient satisfaction following non-operative vs operative treatment has not been investigated extensively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To compare outcomes and complications between nonoperative and operative management of femur and tibia fractures in patients with paraplegia or quadriplegia from chronic spinal cord injury (SCI).
Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Setting: Three Level-1 Trauma centers.
Article Synopsis
- A study conducted at 25 hospitals compared the effectiveness of two antiseptic solutions (iodine povacrylex and chlorhexidine gluconate) in preventing surgical-site infections during extremity fracture surgeries.
- Results showed that iodine povacrylex led to a lower rate of infections in patients with closed fractures (2.4% vs. 3.3%) but did not show a significant difference for open fractures (6.5% vs. 7.3%).
- Ultimately, the study concluded that iodine povacrylex is a more effective skin antiseptic for closed extremity fractures, resulting in fewer infections compared to chlorhexidine, though both had similar outcomes for reoperations and adverse events.
Purpose: To determine whether arthroscopy is an effective means to diagnose and treat postoperative pain in anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) and reverse TSA patients.
Methods: A 2-year retrospective chart review of patients with a painful shoulder arthroplasty was performed. Patients included in the study had a painful shoulder after previous shoulder arthroplasty without gross signs of infection, severely elevated laboratory markers, implant loosening, or glenoid arthrosis after hemiarthroplasty.