The Correlation between Cervical Fusion Length and Functional Outcomes in Patients with Traumatic Spinal Cord Damage-A Registry-Based Cohort Study.

This study aims to assess if there is an evident correlation between fusion length and rehabilitation success after trauma to the cervical spine that could potentially be used to predict functional outcomes. This monocentric study was conducted in the Spinal-Cord-Injury center of the Berufsgenossenschaftliches Klinikum Hamburg. Data sets of 199 patients from the Spinal-Cord-Injury center admitted between the beginning of 2003 and the end of 2018 were subjected to statistical analyses.

Lag-Screw Osteosynthesis in Thoracolumbar Pincer Fractures.

Study Design: Biomechanical.

Objective: This study evaluates the biomechanical properties of lag-screws used in vertebral pincer fractures at the thoracolumbar junction.

Methods: Pincer fractures were created in 18 bisegmental human specimens.

Discontinuous ventilator weaning of patients with acute SCI.

Study Design: Retrospective, single centre cohort study.

Objectives: To determine factors associated with ventilator weaning success and failure in patients with acute spinal cord injury (SCI); determine length of time and attempts required to wean from the ventilator successfully and determine the incidence of pneumonia.

Setting: BG Klinikum Hamburg, Level 1 trauma centre, SCI Department, Germany.

Complications during removal of conventional versus locked compression plates: is there a difference?

Background: Osteosynthesis plate removal is one of the most commonly performed procedures in orthopaedic surgery. Due to technological advances and the quality of increasing osteosynthesis material, more and more locked plates have been implanted over the last 20 years. The aim of this study was to determine whether the complication rate during plate removal differs between conventional and locked plates.