Closing the health gap in Central Australia: reduction in Indigenous Australian inpatient self-discharge rates following routine collaboration with Aboriginal Health Workers.

Background: Indigenous Australians experience significant socioeconomic disadvantage and healthcare disparity compared to non-Indigenous Australians. A retrospective cohort study to describe the association between rates of self-discharge in Indigenous orthopaedic patients and the introduction of routine Aboriginal Liaison Officers (ALO) within the Orthopaedic multi-disciplinary team (MDT) was performed.

Methods: ALO were introduced within our routine Orthopaedic MDT on the 22 of February 2021.

The application of shear wave elastography with ultrasound for rotator cuff tears: a systematic review.

Background: Shear wave elastography (SWE) is an emerging ultrasound-based technology that provides a quantitative assessment of musculoskeletal tissue integrity. This systematic review investigates the use of SWE in the evaluation of rotator cuff tears.

Methods: PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and the Cochrane Library databases were searched for relevant studies from 1901 up to June 2022.

The association between keratoconus and allergic eye diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: To investigate the association between keratoconus (KC) and allergic eye diseases, eye rubbing, and atopy.

Methods: PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Cochrane databases were searched for studies investigating eye allergy, atopy, and eye rubbing as risk factors for KC up to April 2021. Two authors independently screened all titles and abstracts against the predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Infectious crystalline keratopathy following Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty.

Introduction: We describe this first case of causing infectious crystalline keratopathy (ICK) following Descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK), that resolved after 5 weeks of topical antibiotic and corticosteroid treatment.

Case Description: An 80-year-old woman presented with blurred vision, redness, and ocular pain 9 months after successful DSAEK. Slit lamp examination revealed the presence of white, non-suppurative, deep-branching stromal infiltrates, and a clinical diagnosis of ICK was made.

High Tibial Osteotomy Versus Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty for Unicompartmental Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Purpose: High tibial osteotomy (HTO) and unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) are commonly performed procedures for the treatment of compartmental knee osteoarthritis; however, the optimal procedure remains controversial. We conducted this systematic review and meta-analysis to compare the functional outcomes and assess complications and revision rates between the two techniques.

Methods: We searched electronic databases for relevant studies comparing HTO versus UKA for unicompartmental knee osteoarthritis.

The association between keratoconus and allergic eye diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: To investigate association between keratoconus and allergic eye diseases, eye rubbing, and atopy.

Methods: PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Cochrane were searched for relevant published studies from inception to April 2021 without restrictions or filters. We included case-control, cohort, and cross-sectional studies that investigated eye allergy, atopy, or eye rubbing as possible risk factors for KC.

Effect of Perioperative Vitamin C on the Incidence of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS-I) is a complex complication that occurs after limb extremity surgeries. Controversy exists regarding the effectiveness of vitamin C in reducing that condition. Therefore, we conducted this systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the role of vitamin C on CRPS-I and functional outcomes after distal radius, wrist, foot, and ankle surgeries.

Ten-year results of quality assurance in radiotherapy chart round.

Background: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) initiated a unique instrument to audit the quality of patient notes and radiotherapy prescriptions. We present our experience collected over ten years from the use of the RANZCR audit instrument.

Methods: In this study, the results of data collected prospectively from January 1999 to June 2009 through the audit instrument were assessed.

Potential for contamination of orthopaedic implants using individually wrapped screws.

Background: There has been an anecdotal shift away from screw banks in orthopaedic surgery in preference for individually wrapped screws. Our hypothesis is that opening individually wrapped items introduces a possible source of contamination of the surgical set-up and repeated opening compounds this potential. Theoretically, this could pose a greater infection risk to the patient than the alternative of a screw bank.

Perioperative urinary catheterisation in conjunction with epidural anaesthesia for hip and knee arthroplasty. Is it safe?

The place of indwelling urinary catheterisation following epidural anaesthesia to prevent acute retention of urine after hip and knee arthroplasty is controversial. Even with the use of aseptic techniques and closed sterile drainage, bacteriuria has been reported in 10-27% of catheterised patients. A prospective trial was carried out in 68 consecutive patients undergoing knee or hip joint arthroplasty with epidural anaesthesia to investigate the perioperative complications of short term urinary catheterisation.

Cavernous haemangioma of the epididymis mimicking a testicular malignancy.

A case of testicular adnexal haemangioma which presented as a large solid mass with a recent increase in size--thereby mimicking a malignancy--is presented. This paper also includes an overview of benign vascular neoplasms of the testis.