Functional Outcomes of Elderly Patients With Nonoperatively Treated Acetabular Fractures That Meet Operative Criteria.

Objectives: To report functional outcomes of displaced acetabular fractures treated nonoperatively in the geriatric patient population.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Setting: Two Level I trauma centers.

Functional Outcomes of 24-Hour Thumb Immobilization in Healthy Volunteers: Prospective Comparative Study.

 Immobilization is often needed for the treatment of wrist and hand injuries. The current best method of immobilization for several types of injuries has yet to be elucidated with little being reported on the functional differences of each type of immobilization.  The purpose of this study is to compare the functional outcome between healthy young volunteers with a 24-hour short arm cast (SAC) versus thumb spica cast (TSC) immobilization.

Factors Affecting Hand Surgeon Operating Room Turnover Time.

The purpose of this study was to determine the factors that affect hand surgeon operating room (OR) turnover time. We hypothesized that surgeon presence in the OR, decreased American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) class, smaller case type, and earlier case time, as well as other factors, decreased OR turnover time. A total of 685 hand surgery cases performed by 5 attending hand surgeons between September 2013 and December 2014 were identified.

A sensitive and rapid UFLC-APCI-MS/MS bioanalytical method for quantification of endogenous and exogenous Vitamin K1 isomers in human plasma: Development, validation and first application to a pharmacokinetic study.

Due to lack of suitable bioanalytical methods in previous literature, for simultaneous estimation of Vitamin K1 isomers, in compliance with the current regulatory expectation, we aimed to develop a sensitive and rapid method with UFLC-APCI-MS/MS (ultrafast liquid chromatography - tandem mass spectrometry) using human plasma. A simple and cost effective procedure was implemented with the combination of protein precipitation and liquid extraction, to isolate the targets from plasma sample, while achieving an insignificant matrix effects and high recovery (≥88.2%).