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Functional Outcome of Supracondylar Elbow Fractures in Children Comparison of Cast Materials for the Treatment of Clubfoot Using
CLINICAL CONGRESS 2014 October 26–30, 2014 | Moscone Center | San Francisco Vol. 57, No. 4, August/août 2014 canjsurg.ca Functional outcome of supracondylar elbow fractures in children Comparison of cast materials for the treatment of clubfoot using the Ponseti method: a prospective RCT Computed tomography features associated with operative management for nonstrangulating small bowel obstruction The Best Surgical Education All in One Place. Bridging the gap between open and minimally invasive Clinical Congress 2014. Where you want to be. pancreaticoduodenectomy: the hybrid approach REGISTER NOW! SPONSORS Canadian Association of General Surgeons Department of Surgery, University of Alberta www.facs.org/clincon2014 Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery Department of Surgery, University of Calgary Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology Département de chirurgie, Université de Sherbrooke Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons Department of Surgery, McMaster University Department of Surgery, Western University Département de chirurgie, Université de Montréal Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University The Surgeon of the Future covercjs-aug14.indd 3 14-07-16 10:04 AM covercjs-aug14.indd 4 14-07-16 10:04 AM covercjs-aug14.indd 5 14-07-16 10:04 AM canjsurg.ca Vol. 57, No. 4, August/août 2014 canjsurg.ca EDITORIAL • ÉDITORIAL 237 Parathyroid hormone levels 1 hour after thyroidectomy: an early predictor of 221 No specialty alone: the Wilder Penfield strategy postoperative hypocalcemia V.C. McAlister A. AlQahtani, A. Parsyan, R. Payne, R. Tabah 223 Aucune spécialité n’est une île : la stratégie 241 Functional outcome of supracondylar elbow de Wilder Penfield fractures in children: a 3- to 5-year follow-up V.C. -
The Clinical Management of Poliomyelitis a Current View 2020
The Clinical Management of Poliomyelitis A Current View 2020 Hugh G. Watts MD, Editor Contributors: Benjamin Joseph MS Orth, MCh.Orth, FRCS Ed, John Fisk MD, Sharon K. DeMuth DPT, MS, Helen Cochrane MSc. CPO(c), Mathew Varghese MD, Sanjeev Sabharwal MD, MPH Global HELP Organization 1 Preface Many people have been misled to think that poliomyelitis Those many thousands who currently live with paralysis is essentially extinct. While the worldwide incidence of due to polio and AFP still need care. Add to this, those with polio has gone from an estimated 350,000 reported proven the polio-like AFM who also need treatments developed cases in 1988 to 74 cases in 2015 (1) the prevalence of for polio. But as long as the thinking among health workers Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) in children was above becomes fixed in the belief that polio has been eliminated, 50,000 per year in India alone (2). In the past 40 years there or is “just around the corner from being eliminated” the have been persisting sporadic cases. It is critical to be aware many lessons learned over the generations about how those that approximately only one child in 200 who gets the with polio can be greatly helped by appropriate clinical disease develops paralysis (3). The rest show few symptoms techniques will slip into oblivion. The repository of this beyond malaise and diarrhea, which are common symptoms information is now in the hands of an ever-dwindling in childhood and easily overlooked. Thus, for every child number of clinicians in their seventies and eighties who reported to have polio, there may be as many as 199 other have treated such patients in their career. -
Clubfoot: Ponseti Management Second Edition
Clubfoot: Ponseti Management Second Edition Preface Ignacio Ponseti Contributors Ignacio Ponseti Jose Morcuende Vincent Mosca Shafique Pirani Fred Dietz John Herzenberg Stuart Weinstein Norgrove Penny Michiel Steenbeek Editor Lynn Staheli Effect of weekly Ponseti cast treatment Contents Contents ..............................................................1 Managing Relapse .............................................19 Preface .................................................................2 Transfer of Anterior Tibial Tendon ...................20 Contributors ........................................................3 Reference Foreword ............................................................4 Pirani Scoring ....................................................22 Management Common Management Errors ...........................23 Scientific Basis of Management .........................6 Public Health Approach to Management ..........24 Overview of Management ...................................8 For Parents Details of Technique ..........................................10 General Information ..........................................26 Cast Technique ..................................................12 Instructions for Brace Use .................................27 Equinus Correction ...........................................14 Common Questions ...........................................28 Atypical clubfoot ...............................................15 Contacts .............................................................29 Bracing -
Clubfoot: Ponseti Management Second Edition
Clubfoot: Ponseti Management Second Edition Preface Ignacio Ponseti Contributors Ignacio Ponseti Jose Morcuende Vincent Mosca Shafique Pirani Fred Dietz John Herzenberg Stuart Weinstein Norgrove Penny Michiel Steenbeek Editor Lynn Staheli Effect of weekly Ponseti cast treatment Contents Contents ..............................................................1 Managing Relapse .............................................19 Preface .................................................................2 Transfer of Anterior Tibial Tendon ...................20 Contributors ........................................................3 Reference Foreword ............................................................4 Pirani Scoring ....................................................22 Management Common Management Errors ...........................23 Scientific Basis of Management .........................6 Public Health Approach to Management ..........24 Overview of Management ...................................8 For Parents Details of Technique ..........................................10 General Information ..........................................26 Cast Technique ..................................................12 Instructions for Brace Use .................................27 Equinus Correction ...........................................14 Common Questions ...........................................28 Atypical clubfoot ...............................................15 Contacts .............................................................29 Bracing