Wound complications after hip surgery using a tapeless compressive support.

Purpose: To compare the incidence of wound complications after hip surgery in patients treated with a compressive spica wrap dressing to those using traditional taping methods.

Design: Retrospective, descriptive, comparative, intervention study.

Sample: 457 hip surgery patients, including primary arthroplasty, revision surgery and fracture with ORIF.

Long-term retention deficits in two cases of disproportionate retrograde amnesia.

Abstract The status of very long-term retention, together with detailed brain imaging correlates, is presented in two patients with disproportionately dense retrograde amnesia. The first patient suffered a severe closed head injury and was left with dense autobiographical amnesia for events that she had experienced prior to her injury. She showed relatively mild, patchy memory impairment on standard anterograde memory tests.

Silicone rubber replacement of the severely fractured radial head.

Ten patients, at an average of 3.4 years after Swanson silicone rubber radial head replacement following acute trauma, were evaluated for pain, motion, and grip strength. Three had excellent results, one had a fair result, and two had poor results.