Native American Representation and Diversity Initiatives Within Orthopaedic Surgery: An Update and Road Map to Success.

Orthopaedic surgery lags behind other specialties in terms of diversity. This lack of representation is especially evident within the Native American population. Native American/Alaskan Natives represent approximately 2.

Recurrent Infections After Percutaneous Pinning of a Proximal Radius and Ulna Fracture.

Elbow fractures in the pediatric population are an exceedingly common injury, comprising 5% to 10% of all pediatric fractures, with supracondylar fractures being the most common of the subset. Radial neck fractures are less frequent, comprising only 1% of all pediatric fractures. We provide a case report of a 7-year-old girl with a left radial neck and proximal ulna fracture.

In-Hospital Mortality Risk and Discharge Disposition Following Hip Fractures: An Analysis of the Texas Trauma Registry.

Background: In-hospital mortality and discharge disposition following traumatic hip fractures previously reported in the literature, has mainly focused on a nationwide scale, which may not be reflective of unique populations.

Objective: Our aim was to characterize demographics, hospital disposition, and associated outcomes for patients with the most common hip fractures.

Methods: A retrospective study utilizing the Trauma Registry from the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Variability in evaluation and treatment of tibial tubercle fractures among pediatric orthopedic surgeons.

The purpose of this study was to determine the variability in clinical management of tibial tubercle fractures among a group of pediatric orthopedic surgeons. Nine fellowship-trained academic pediatric orthopedic surgeons reviewed 51 anteroposterior and lateral knee radiographs with associated case age. Respondents were asked to describe each fracture using the Ogden classification (type 1-5 with A/B modifiers), desired radiographic workup, operative vs.

The impact of segmental spinal alignment on the development of proximal junctional kyphosis after instrumented posterior spinal fusions for idiopathic scoliosis.

Purpose: To assess if the preservation of preoperative kyphosis within the cephalad two motion segments of instrumented posterior spinal fusions (PSF), for idiopathic scoliosis (IS), would be associated with lower frequency of proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) at 2 years postoperatively. Previous studies on PJK in IS have reported conflicting findings; none has evaluated the relationship between segmental kyphosis within the cephalad instrumented construct and PJK.

Methods: One hundred consecutive patients undergoing PSF for IS by a single surgeon with minimum 2-year follow-up were evaluated.

Evaluating Trends and Outcomes of Spinal Deformity Surgery in Cerebral Palsy Patients.

Background: There is a paucity of literature examining surgical trends and outcomes in both child and adult cerebral palsy (CP) patients. We aimed to evaluate surgical trends, complications, length of stay, and charges for spinal deformity surgery in CP patients.

Methods: Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) from 2001 to 2013, patients with CP scoliosis who underwent spinal fusion surgery were identified.