Publications by authors named "Sudhakar R Challagundla"
We present clinical and functional results of first metatarsophalangeal joint (MTPJ) arthrodesis using Memory staples. This retrospective observational study reviewed MTPJ arthrodesis with Memory staples from 2012 to 2016. The mean age of 50 patients (55 feet) was 63 years (range 41-77 years).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Operative management of ever increasing ankle fractures in the elderly need a reliable system of internal fixation. We present results of one such fixation, Fibula Rod System.
Methods: Patients who underwent Fibula Rod System were included.
Background: We wanted to assess the number of unnecessary radiographs done for acute knee injury patients and the accuracy of the Pittsburgh decision rules.
Material And Methods: A retrospective observational study was done to look at the acute knee injury patients presented to a district general hospital Accident and Emergency Department from August 2011 till August 2013. We assessed the following parameters: sex, age, mechanism of injury, weight-bearing status and incidence of fractures in patients subjected to plain radiograph.
Background: Following advice from the Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group, we switched our antibiotic prophylaxis for elective hip and knee replacement surgery from cefuroxime to flucloxacillin with single-dose gentamicin in order to reduce the incidence of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea (CDAD). A clinical impression that more patients subsequently developed acute kidney injury (AKI) led us to examine this possibility in more detail.
Methods: We examined the incidence of AKI in 198 consecutive patients undergoing elective hip or knee surgery.