The director-elect of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and six other orthopedic surgeons who joined new practices or assumed new titles in January:
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The CDC's surgical wound classification system might be inadequate for orthopedic surgery, according to a Mayo Clinic study published Dec. 15 in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
Greenwich, Conn.-based Orthopaedic & Neurosurgery Specialists opened an office in Wilton, Conn., Westchester & Fairfield County Business Journals reported Feb. 4.
Several spine and orthopedic surgical robots have advanced in 2021 from FDA approvals to extended applications and reach.
Shriners Hospitals for Children plans to close an orthopedic hospital in Tampa that shifted to outpatient-only care in 2019, Tampa Bay Times reported Feb. 3.
In the last month, Becker's reported on three lawsuits involving spine and orthopedic device companies in the last month.
Outpatient spine and orthopedic surgery has accelerated in the last two years, and with that could come growth in ASC-based technologies, according to Jason Weisstein, MD, of Yavapai Regional Medical Center in Prescott, Ariz.
Cory Calendine, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Franklin-based Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee, has plans to implement new technologies and protocols to strengthen care at the practice.
New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery named Marci Goolsby, MD, and Beth Shubin Stein, MD, as co-directors of the HSS Women's Sports Medicine Center.
Sean McMillan, DO, became the first surgeon to use the Bear anterior cruciate ligament implant in New Jersey, ROI-NJ reported Feb. 3.