Orthopaedic Surgery PGY-4 at Rush || CWRU SOM Class of 2022 || University of Notre Dame Class of 2018 || 🇨🇺☘️🦴
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Revision Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty: Worse than a Primary, but... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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JBJS Infographics - Low-Dose Aspirin Is the Safest Prophylaxis for Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism After Total Knee Arthroplasty Across All Patient Risk Profiles
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Despite the steadily growing number of primary THAs, the revision rate is not rising similarly. However, the frequency of periprosthetic joint infections in THA is increasing and gaining more importance.
#Surgery #Mortality #BJJ
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ALT The Bone & Joint Journal. Abstract extract for article titled 'Re-revision and mortality rate following revision total hip arthroplasty for infection.
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Low-Dose Aspirin Is the Safest Prophylaxis for Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism After Total Knee Arthroplasty Across All Patient Risk Profiles
#knee
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Congrats Kyleen Jan, MD, of @RushMedical, the 1st place winner of the 2024 OREF Midwest Resident Research Symposium! For the complete list of winners and the research they presented visit: bit.ly/3UIHdMh #Orthosymposia
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Understanding the distribution of research funding is crucial for optimizing innovation and growth in orthopedic research. Our findings reveal that adult reconstruction and sports medicine currently attract the highest levels of industry research funding.
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An In-Depth Analysis of Public and Private Research Funding in Orthopaedic Surgery from 2015 to 2021
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Alexander Acuña retweeted
In 1990 srgns under Medicare were paid avg $3,258 for a knee replacement today avg $1098. Considering inflation with no increase surgeons should be paid $7,656 today yet our expenses have gone up 2.35x,hospitals cont to receive ⬆️ reimbursement.
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Congratulations to all at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at RUSH for their passion and dedication towards research !
“Multidisciplinary team science” at its best !
@MOR_Docs @AAOS1 @AOFoundation @OREFtoday @ORSsociety
Alexander Acuña retweeted
Hecht et al.'s systematic review found that patients w/psychiatric illness have an increased risk of postop complications, increased length of stay, higher costs, less frequent home discharge & worse PROM scores after TJA. Read more in #CORRMay2023 #iMESH2 ow.ly/Zc7E50NYFHX
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Will increasing the number of APPs alone solve the orthopaedic care shortage in rural areas? Hercht et al. show how this may not be sufficient—APPs tend to only practice in counties that contain orthopaedic surgeons. #CORR #PAP Read more: ow.ly/JSgX50NJCuW
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Only 32% of hospital websites are fully compliant with #hospitaltransparency in price information for #jointreplacement as required, according to a study in @Clinorthop ow.ly/jwMV50JO4M3
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ICYMI: Most US hospitals do not share price information for joint replacement as required, potentially impacting patients’ healthcare decisions or their ability to reduce healthcare expenditures. @AlexanderJAcuna @ClevelandClinic
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Less than one-third of hospitals provide compliant price transparency information for TJA procedures @ClevelandClinic
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Do you know how much time you are spending on septic 2-stage TJAs? Find out from the study below! Surgeons should be compensated for the extra time. @womenAAHKS @jointdocShields @CenterRotation @Dr_Stambough @ashtongoldmanmd @DrAntoniaChen @CMSGov
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First AAOS podium in the books! So thankful for my mentors and research team @AlexanderJAcuna @LinsenSamuel #AAOS2022 #orthotwitter
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JBJS Supplement - Recommendations of the International Consensus Group on Venous Thromboembolism after Orthopaedic Procedures
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Acute Well-Leg Compartment Syndrome After Meniscal Allograft Transplantation and Revision ACL Reconstruction
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After controlling for various potential confounding variables, researchers found that receiving an intra- or postoperative transfusion was associated with an increased risk of DVT after primary TKA @ClevelandClinic @AhmedAkmemara
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Commentary on JBJS article “Industry Payments Among Appropriate Use Criteria Voting Panels. An Open Payments Analysis” @DrAntoniaChen
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The Role of Content Experts in Appropriate Use Criteria:... : JBJS journals.lww.com/jbjsjournal… @AlexanderJAcuna
