Does the Information Quality of ChatGPT Meet the Requirements of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery?

Background: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, particularly through AI-based language models like ChatGPT, offers a promising avenue for enhancing patient education and healthcare delivery. This study aims to evaluate the quality of medical information provided by Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) regarding common orthopedic and trauma surgical procedures, assess its limitations, and explore its potential as a supplementary source for patient education.

Methods: Using the GPT-3.

Temporary arthrodesis through static spacer implantation in two-stage treatment of periprosthetic joint infections of the knee.

Objective: Treatment of chronic periprosthetic joint infection of the knee requires the removal of the implant and thorough debridement, with reimplantation in a second stage surgery. Intramedullary spacers can be helpful during the interval between explantation and reimplantation and provide a temporary arthrodesis which fixes the knee in extension preserving leg length and administers local antibiotic therapy.

Indications: Periprosthetic joint infection of the knee with large bony defects and severe infection of the native joint with advanced destruction/infiltration of the cartilage and bone and/or ligament insufficiency.

COVID-19 measures as an opportunity to reduce the environmental footprint in orthopaedic and trauma surgery.

Background: Climate change and its consequences on our everyday life have also tremendous impacts on public health and the health of each individual. The healthcare sector currently accounts for 4.4% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Commercially manufactured spacers for the treatment of periprosthetic joint infection of the hip.

Background: Periprosthetic joint infection remains a common and serious complication after hip arthroplasty. To improve function and patient comfort after joint removal in two-stage revision, commercially manufactured spacers for the hip joint allow retention of the anatomical joint geometry thereby limiting soft tissue contraction and allow mobilization.

Indications: Periprosthetic joint infection of the hip, septic arthritis with severe destruction of the hip cartilage and/or bone requiring arthroplasty.

Surgical technique and preliminary results of a moulded, mobile spacer for the treatment of periprosthetic joint infection of the knee.

Objective: Mobile knee spacers can be utilized in the first stage of a two-stage exchange in periprosthetic joint infection or septic arthritis of the knee to prevent soft tissue contraction, enable local antibiotic elution, and improve patient mobility. Commercially made moulds enable the surgeon to prepare a reproducible spacer design and match the preparation of the arthroplasty, which will be carried out in a second step.

Indications: Periprosthetic joint infection of the knee and severe cases of septic arthritis of the knee with advanced destruction/infiltration of the cartilage.

Sonication in Patients With Spinal Cord Stimulation: A New Approach for Infection Diagnostics.

Introduction: Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) offers improvement in pain and function for several chronic pain conditions. There are concerns regarding bacterial colonization of the temporary lead extensions and subsequent infection risk in a two-session implantation procedure. Although there is no standardized evaluation of SCS lead contamination, this study evaluates the infection rate and microbial colonization of SCS lead extensions with sonication, a method that is established in implant-related infection diagnostics.

Common and dissociable effects of oxytocin and lorazepam on the neurocircuitry of fear.

Benzodiazepines (BZDs) represent the gold standard of anxiolytic pharmacotherapy; however, their clinical benefit is limited by side effects and addictive potential. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop novel and safe anxiolytics. The peptide hormone oxytocin (OXT) exhibits anxiolytic-like properties in animals and humans, but whether OXT and BZDs share similar effects on the neural circuitry of fear is unclear.