Risk assessment of accidental exposure of surgeons to blood during orthopedic surgery. Are we safe in surgical gloves?

Aim: To analyze tears in sterile surgical gloves used by surgeons in the operating theatre of the Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery Department, Copernicus Memorial Hospital, Łódź, Poland.

Materials And Method: This study analyzes tears in sterile surgical gloves used by surgeons by ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes. 1,404 gloves were collected from 581 surgical procedures.

Fatigue fracture of the femur after navigated total knee replacement.

We present a case of fatigue fracture of the femur after navigated total knee arthroplasty with the Orthopilot system. A 60-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis (T-score = -3.1) reported increasing pain of the thigh 8 weeks after the surgery.

[Serum bone markers in patients with loosening of cemented total hip endoprosthesis].

Serum levels of bone markers N-mid osteocalcin (OCN-Mid) and Cross-Laps in 20 patients (8 men and 12 women) with loosening of at least one element of total hip endoprosthesis confirmed during operation were compared with age and sex matched group with OA. Marker levels were measured by direct chemoluminescency using Modular E-170. Statistical analysis were done with t-Student test (alpha = 0.

[Evaluation of bone metabolism in patients after total hip replacement based on bone turnover markers].

Serum bone markers: N-mid osteocalcin (OCN-Mid) and Cross-Laps were evaluated in 51 patients (15 men and 36 women), age 50-81y. (mean 69) with OA undergoing elective cemented THR. Samples were collected at the day before operation and 3 days, 1, 2, 6 weeks, 3, 6, 12 months after the operation and markers measured by direct chemoluminescency using Modular E-170.