Isolated injury, Charlson Comorbidity Index, and transfer from another facility are associated with delay in antibiotic administration: a retrospective study of 963 patients with open fractures.

Purpose: To identify factors associated with delays in administration and pharmacy and nursing preparation of antibiotics for patients with open fractures.

Design: Retrospective review.

Setting: Level I trauma center.

Quitline usage does not improve rates of smoking cessation in orthopaedic trauma patients unless combined with nicotine replacement therapy.

Purpose: The negative effects of smoking following traumatic orthopaedic injury can lead to serious complications and decreased quality of life. The widely available quitline could be easily implemented in the orthopaedic postoperative period to improve outcome, but the effectiveness of this intervention in this population is unknown. The goal of this study was to determine if active referral to a quitline would improve rates of smoking cessation in this population.

Higher revision rates in patients with preoperative contralateral pes planovalgus deformity following total knee arthroplasty.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the incidence of revision in those with pes planovalgus deformity to those without using a large national database. Given the reciprocal changes in lower extremity alignment associated with planovalgus foot deformity, it has been suggested that patients with this deformity has worse outcomes following total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

Methods: A retrospective cohort analysis of patients undergoing elective TKA was conducted using the PearlDiver database.