Introduction of day case hip and knee replacement programme at an inpatient ward is safe and may expedite shortening of hospital stays of traditional arthroplasties.

Purpose: We investigated the safety of primary hip and knee replacements with same day discharge (SDD) and their effect on length of stay (LOS) of traditional inpatient arthroplasties at our elective orthopaedic ward.

Methods: 200 patients underwent elective, unilateral primary day case total hip (THA, n = 94), total knee (TKA, n = 60) and unicondylar knee replacements (UKA, n = 46). SDD rates, reasons for failure to discharge, readmission, complication and satisfaction rates were recorded at 6-week follow up.

Positioning of the wrist for scaphoid radiography.

Purpose: The purpose of this cadaver study was to determine the ideal position of the wrist for scaphoid radiography.

Materials And Methods: Four cadaver wrists were rotated around their longitudinal axis in 15 degrees increments and exposures were taken. Seven postero-anterior images were taken as well.

Repair of steps and gaps in articular fracture models.

To examine the healing of surface defects in articular fractures, gaps measuring 0.5 mm wide and 2 mm deep were created in 0.5-mm coronal step-offs on the medial femoral condyles of 16 rabbits, and identical gaps without step-offs were created in another set of 13 rabbits.

Obesity and low back pain.

Obesity and low back pain (LBP) are common health problems among patients attending Primary Health Care (PHC) in general practice at the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The objective of this study was to determine whether obesity is associated with low back pain. A cross-sectional face-to-face interview questionnaire survey was conducted.

Epiphyseal separation of the distal humerus.

A case of epiphyseal separation of the distal humerus is presented, emphasizing the clinical and radiological features of this rare birth trauma. Conservative treatment resulted in complete recovery.

Multifocal simultaneous Salmonella typhi osteomyelitis in an immunocompetent adult.

We report a case of Salmonella typhi osteomyelitis that presented as a pathologic fracture of the left femur and had additional silent manifestations in the right tibia and humerus in an otherwise healthy adult. This is the first report in the literature of multifocal simultaneous Salmonella osteomyelitis in an adult with no underlying medical condition.