Posted on February 12, 2010 by Arun Shanbhag
Dr Malcolm Smith, (Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA has been providing valuable clinical service in Haiti. Read one of his email dispatches from Haiti.
You can read more dispatches from Dr Malcolm Smith here.
From Malcolm Smith, MD:
Sent: Jan. 20, 2:50 pm
Summary diary for today: Had a small disturbance this AM when [...]
Filed under: News, Orthopaedic, Trauma, Trauma Rounds | Tagged: Earthquake, Haiti, Orthopaedic, port-au-prince, Trauma | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 8, 2010 by Arun Shanbhag
Several of our colleagues have been providing invaluable service in Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake. Below, we are excerpting a note from Dr George Dyer, (Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital), which will give you an idea of what has been happening in Haiti and the excellent service provided by [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2010 by Arun Shanbhag
George Dyer, MD, is an Orthopaedic Surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Here, Dr Dyer shares a useful trick for simplifying the delivery of allograft bone chips to a small graft site.
The conventional method of delivering bone chips into an area to be grafted typically [...]
Filed under: Elbow, Orthopaedic, Trauma, Trauma Rounds | Tagged: allograft, bone chips, Elbow, fractures, humerus, Orthopaedic, orthopedic, Trauma | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 24, 2009 by Arun Shanbhag
Mark S Vrahas, MD, Partners Chief of Orthopaedic Trauma, and Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School, describes a new way to fix tibial tubercle fractures. Dr Vrahas sees patients at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and the Massachusetts General Hospital.
A fracture of the tibial tubercle when associated with a fracture of [...]
Filed under: Knee, Orthopaedic, Trauma, Trauma Rounds | Tagged: BWH, cerclage wires, fixation, fractures, Mass General, MGH, Partners Healthcare, Tibia, tibial plateau fracture, tibial tubercle, wiring | Leave a Comment »
