Rehabilitation After Surgical Repair of Acute Achilles Tendon Rupture: Functional Outcome With a Minimum Follow-Up of 6 Months.

The best treatment and rehabilitation of Achilles tendon ruptures remains controversial. Current literature focuses mainly on objective outcomes despite possible incongruity with patient-reported functional outcomes. Therefore, we aimed to identify the course of patient-reported symptoms, function and quality of life during the early rehabilitation period.

Displaced Clavicle Fractures in Cyclists: Return to Athletic Activity After Anteroinferior Plate Fixation.

Background: One of the most commonly observed injuries in cycling is fracture of the clavicle. Nevertheless, there is limited literature available on clinical outcomes after plate fixation of clavicle fractures in cyclists, rehabilitation protocols, and the time to return to sports.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the functional outcome, complications, and return to athletic activity at short-term follow-up after surgical repair.

Plate fixation of clavicle fractures: comparison between early and delayed surgery.

Background: The optimal treatment strategy for clavicle fractures remains a topic of debate. We evaluated our step-wise treatment protocol for patients with clavicle fractures to determine our success rate of conservative treatment. In addition, we evaluated the incidence of complications after clavicle plate fixation in patients undergoing acute surgery vs.

Association of pre-treatment radiographic characteristics of calcaneal fractures on patient-reported outcomes.

Purposes: Calcaneal fractures are known to influence patients' quality of life negatively. The type of calcaneal fracture might have a relation with the patient outcome. To inform patients in an early stage on how their calcaneal fracture may affect their lives, knowledge of the fracture characteristics is necessary.

Accuracy of Prehospital Triage in Selecting Severely Injured Trauma Patients.

Importance: A major component of trauma care is adequate prehospital triage. To optimize the prehospital triage system, it is essential to gain insight in the quality of prehospital triage of the entire trauma system.

Objective: To prospectively evaluate the quality of the field triage system to identify severely injured adult trauma patients.

Functional and quality of life outcome after non-operatively managed proximal humeral fractures.

Background: Fractures of the proximal humerus are common and most often treated non-operatively. However, long-term follow-up studies focusing on functional results and quality of life in patients after this type of fracture are scarce. The primary aim of this study is to report the long-term functional and quality of life outcome in patients with a proximal humeral fracture.

Necrotising fasciitis as atypical presentation of infection with emerging Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W (MenW) clonal complex 11, the Netherlands, March 2017.

In March 2017, a patient with necrotising fasciitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W (MenW) clonal complex 11 was diagnosed in the Netherlands. Unusual and severe presentations of MenW infections are common in the current European epidemic. In the Netherlands, the incidence of MenW infections increased 10-fold, from an average of 0.

Anteroinferior versus superior plating of clavicular fractures.

Background: Open reduction and plate fixation has gained recognition as an effective treatment for certain types of clavicular fractures. However, 88% of cases report some implant-related problems. To determine the optimal plate position, the aim of the present study was to compare implant-related irritation and proportion of plate removal in patients with clavicular fractures undergoing plate fixation by an anteroinferior or superior approach.

Functional outcome after tibial plateau fracture osteosynthesis: a mean follow-up of 6 years.

Background: Tibial plateau fractures often require surgical treatment. Functional outcome depends mainly on the range of knee motion, joint stability, and pain. Only a few studies evaluate the functional outcome of a tibial plateau fracture after operation.

Displaced midshaft fractures of the clavicle: non-operative treatment versus plate fixation (Sleutel-TRIAL). A multicentre randomised controlled trial.

Background: The traditional view that the vast majority of midshaft clavicular fractures heal with good functional outcomes following non-operative treatment may be no longer valid for all midshaft clavicular fractures. Recent studies have presented a relatively high incidence of non-union and identified speciic limitations of the shoulder function in subgroups of patients with these injuries.

Aim: A prospective, multicentre randomised controlled trial (RCT) will be conducted in 21 hospitals in the Netherlands, comparing fracture consolidation and shoulder function after either non-operative treatment with a sling or a plate fixation.

Clinical impact of advanced trauma life support.

The Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course sponsored by the American College of Surgeons Committee On Trauma (ACSCOT) presents a standardized method of initial trauma care. This study attempted to measure any changes in morbidity and mortality in trauma patients after the introduction of ATLS training. Over a 3-year period (May 1996 to September 1997-pre-ATLS period; December 1997 to April 1999-post-ATLS period), 63 trauma patients with an Injury Severity Scale (ISS) > or =16 (n = 31, pre-ATLS and n = 32, post-ATLS) were prospectively studied in two community teaching hospitals.

Advanced trauma life support study: quality of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

Background: The introduction of the ATLS course in The Netherlands in 1995 provided for an opportunity to compare data of trauma patients between a pre-ATLS and a post-ATLS period.

Materials And Methods: Over a 3-year period (May 1996 - September 1997 pre ATLS; December 1997-April 1999 post ATLS) 63 trauma patients with an AIS-ISS > or = 16 (n = 31, pre-ATLS and n = 32, post-ATLS) were prospectively studied in two community residency training (ACS Level III) hospitals. All diagnostic and therapeutic procedures were recorded by a video-camera and evaluated by a neutral faculty of six experienced ATLS trained specialists.

Trauma resuscitation time.

Documenting the timing and organisation of trauma resuscitation can be utilised to assess performance standards, and to ensure a high quality of trauma resuscitation procedures. Since there is no European literature available on trauma resuscitation time (TRT) in the emergency room, the aim of this descriptive study is to evaluate TRT in the Netherlands. The introduction of an ATLS-trained prehospital mobile medical team (MMT) in the Nijmegen area initiated the on-site advanced trauma life-support for the prehospital management of trauma patients.