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Getting the Right Advice
While Emergency Departments are excellent at deciding if you need urgent treatment for an injury, the majority of injuries are not immediately that serious.
July 7, 2017
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Adolescent ACL Reconstruction
Cruciate ligament injuries are an unfortunate sporting injury – especially in aggressive twisting & pivoting sports like netball and football.
May 30, 2017
Biceps Rupture
The biceps muscle in the upper arm has a tendon at either end. In the shoulder, proximal biceps rupture is very common, and might be only a minor part of other shoulder pathology.
May 26, 2017
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Paget’s Disease
Paget’s disease is a condition of bone that changes how the bone forms, and remodels during age.
May 26, 2017
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Tractionless Anterior Hip and the Bikini Incision
Surgeons everywhere continue to work to improve the quality of outcomes of hip replacements.
May 26, 2017
Posteroinferior liner placement
A project on hip replacement technique has won the Queensland Orthopaedic Registrar’s Prize.
May 25, 2017
Inflammation study
One of the issues after knee replacement surgery is pain and inflammation. In 2012, we did a randomised controlled trial on knee replacements.
May 25, 2017
Does Tranexamic Acid reduce post operative bleeding?
David Mitchell added Tranexamic acid to his local anaesthetic mixture for joint replacements in line with a number of other orthopaedic surgeons with the hope of reducing bleeding complications and swelling after joint replacements.
May 25, 2017
Introducing a Clinical Practice Guideline using early CT in the diagnosis of scaphoid and other fractures
Steven Pincus, Merle Weber, Alex Meakin, Ross Breadmore, David Mitchell, Luke Spencer,
Nathan Anderson, Phil Catterson, Steve Farish, Jaycen Cruickshank.
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2009, X(4), 227-32
May 25, 2017
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Os Acromiale – the importance of the axillary lateral x-ray
In the assessment of shoulder pain, both x-rays and ultrasound should be taken.
April 11, 2017