AO Trauma North America Internet Live Series: Orthopaedic Trauma Journal Club

 Session Moderators:Leah Gitajn, MD, MSc

• Roman Natoli, MD, PhD
• Thomas Revak,DO

Session Faculty:

• Robert V. O’Toole, MD: A Prospective Randomized Trial to Assess Fixation Strategies for Severe Open Tibia Fractures: Modern Ring External Fixators Versus Internal Fixation (FIXIT Study)
• Michael Sirkin, MD: Treatment of long bone intramedullary infection using the RIA for removal of infected tissue: Indications, method and clinical results
• Michael Sirkin, MD: The Antibiotic Nail in the Treatment of Long Bone Infection: Technique and Results

Featured this month on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 - Scapula 

• Session ModeratorMai Nguyen, MD
• David Weatherby, MD
• Milton Little, MD
• ​​Albert George, MD
• Chandra Vemulapalli, MD
• Session FacultyPeter Cole, MD - Five to Ten-Year Outcomes of Operatively Treated Scapular Fractures
• Clifford Jones, MD - Modified Judet Approach and Minifragment Fixation of Scapular Body and Glenoid Neck Fractures
•  William Obremskey, MD - Understanding the concept of Medialization in Scapula Fractures
• David Ring, MD - Extra-articular scapular fractures: Comparison of Theoretical and Actual Treatment

Featured this month on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 - ABOS WLA 

• Session ModeratorJason Strelzow, MD
• Lucas Marchand, MD
• Kyle Schweser, MD
• John Morellato, MD
• Session FacultyDavid Galos, MD - Unnecessary Preoperative Cardiology Evaluation and Transthoracic Echocardiogram Delays Time to Surgery for Geriatric Hip Fractures
• Mai Nguyen, MD - Impact of the Fascia Iliaca Block on Pain, Opioid Consumption, and Ambulation for Patients With Hip Fractures: A Prospective, Randomized Study
• Gerard P. Slobogean, MD - Effect of Extended Prophylactic Antibiotic Duration in the Treatment of Open Fracture Wounds Differs by Level of Contamination
• Lisa K. Cannada, MD - A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing rhBMP-2/Absorbable Collagen Sponge Versus Autograft for the Treatment of Tibia Fractures With Critical Size Defects

Featured this month on Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - Acetabulum Fractures 

• Session ModeratorArun Aneja, MD
• Adam Keith Lee, MD
• Andrew Chen, MD
• Session FacultyReza Firoozabadi, MD - Determining Stability in Posterior Wall Acetabular Fractures
• Milton Routt, MD - Risk Factors for Conversion to Total Hip Arthroplasty After Acetabular Fractures Involving the Posterior Wall
• Cory Collinge, MD - Quality of radiographic reduction and perioperative complications for transverse acetabular fractures treated by the Kocher-Langenbeck approach: prone versus lateral position

Featured this month on Tuesday, January 18, 2021: Nonunions

Session Moderators:

Jeffrey Potter, MD

Paul Matuszewski, MD

Jason Strelzow, MD

Session Faculty:

Malcom Smith, MD - A unified theory of bone healing and nonunion: BHN theory

Janet Conway, MD - Antibiotic Cement-Coated Nails for the Treatment of Infected Nonunions and Segmental Bone Defects

William Obremsky, MD - Plate Fixation of Femoral Nonunions Over an Intramedullary Nail With Autogenous Bone Graftingl.

Featured this month on Monday, December 14 2021: DCO vs ETC

• Session ModeratorJohn Hagedorn, MD
• Session FacultyLarry Bone, MD
• Hans Christophe Pape, MD
• Heather Vallier, MD

Featured this month on Tuesday, November 30, 2021: Lisfranc​

• Outcome after open reduction and internal fixation of Lisfranc joint injuries - Bruce Sangeorzan, MD
• Open reduction internal fixation versus primary arthrodesis for lisfranc injuries: a prospective randomized study - John Anderson MD
• Functional Outcomes Post Lisfranc Injury-Transarticular Screws, Dorsal Bridge Plating or Combination Treatment? - Mr. Andrew Oppy: FRACS, FAOrthA

• Session Moderators
• Chris Domes, MD
• Matt Riedel MD
• Kyle Schweser MD

• This Month's Selected Articles and AuthorsEarly versus delayed stabilization of femoral fractures. A prospective randomized study
• Lawrence B. Bone, MD

• Immediate weight-bearing after treatment of a comminuted fracture of the femoral shaft with a statically locked intramedullary nail
• Robert J. Brumback, MD

• Reamed versus unreamed intramedullary nailing of the Femur: Comparison of the rate of ARDS in multiple injured patients
• Ross Leighton, MD, FACS, FRCSC 

• Session ModeratorsThomas Revak, DO
• Caroline Tougas, MD, MEd
• Michael Talerico, MD 

This Month's Selected Articles and Authors

1) Anna Miller....Helfet, Lorich.

Quantitative Assessment of the vascularity of the talus with gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging.

2)Eric Lindvall,... Roy Sanders.

Open Reduction and Stable Fixation of Isolated, Displaced Talar Neck and Body Fractures

3) Heather Vallier et al.

A New Look at the Hawkins Classification for Talar Neck Fractures: Which Features of Injury and

Treatment Are Predictive of Osteonecrosis?

This Month's Selected Articles and AuthorsOpen reduction is associated with greater hazard of early reoperation after internal fixation of displaced femoral neck fractures in adults 18-65 years

• Joseph Patterson, MD
• Read the Article
• Fractures of the femoral neck in patients between the ages of twelve and forty-nine years
• Marc Swiontowski, MD
• Read the Article
• Management of young femoral neck fractures: is there a consensus?
• Gerard Slobogean, MD
• Read the Article

Session ModeratorsLauren Tatman, MD 

• Joseph Patterson, MD
• Jeffrey Potter, MD
• Marc Swiontowski, MD
• Gerard Slobogean, MD
• Lucas Marchand, MD
• Saam Morshed, MD