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A recent webinar highlighted how healthcare reform will impact spine surgeons in hospitals and surgery centers. The webinar featured Nicola V. Hawkinson, DNP, RN, of SpineSearch discussing the key issues associated with managing spine surgery.
Employing minimally invasive surgical techniques can significantly improve intraoperative blood loss, postoperative pain, surgical morbidity and return to function, according to an article published in Spine.
The Food and Drug Administration recently issued a letter of warning to Smith & Nephew over manufacturing problems at a company plant in Tuttlingen, Germany, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Harvesting osteochondral grafts may not have adverse effects on donor knee function in young athletes after undergoing osteochondral autograft transplantation for capitellar osteochondritis dissecans, according to a report published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
The University of Toledo (Ohio) was one of 16 research facilities and organizations to receive a grant from the NFL Charities to conduct sports-related research on MRSA, according to a Toledo Blade news report.
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Michael J. Stuart, MD, is vice chair of orthopedic surgery and co-director of the sports medicine center at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He helped establish the sports medicine program in 1990 and has a professional interest in the lower…
Here are five considerations for orthopedic practice administrators to improve profitability and work flow.
Secure Tracks, a patient support system designed to prevent injuries during rehabilitation for total joint replacement, has recently been installed at the John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital in Phoenix and Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center in Sun City…