Limited value of current shoulder arthroplasty registries in evidence-based shoulder surgery: a review of 7 national registries.

National shoulder arthroplasty registries are currently used to assess incidence, indication, type of prosthesis and revision, but they seem to lack sufficient information to lead to evidence based decision-making in shoulder surgery. There appears to be a large difference in registered parameters and outcome measurement per country. First we investigated whether existing registries have sufficient common datasets to enable pooling of data.

Teaching hip surgery to orthopaedic residents: what's new?

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the published literature on the existing educational methods used to teach surgical skills, with a specific focus on hip surgery, to orthopaedic residents.

Methods: A total of 31 articles were selected from a PubMed literature search on the topic of teaching surgical skills to orthopaedic residents, and 9 articles on hip surgery are included in this review.

Results: Although several methods are included in the published literature to teach orthopaedic residents, only arthroscopy of the knee and shoulder joint is well described.

Analysis of failures after the Bristow-Latarjet procedure for recurrent shoulder instability.

Purpose: Despite good clinical results and low recurrence rates, post-operative complications of coracoid process transfer procedures are not well understood. This study aims to evaluate the underlying failure mechanism in cases requiring major open revision surgery after prior Bristow or Latarjet stabilization.

Methods: Between January 2006 and January 2017, 26 patients underwent major open revision after primary Bristow or Latarjet procedure.