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Complications in Orthopaedics: Pediatrics

  • 1st Edition - September 12, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Stephen R. Thompson, Matthew Schmitz
  • Language: English

The difference between an average surgeon and a master surgeon is often an ability to navigate and resolve surgical complications. Complications in Orthopaedics: Pediatrics provid… Read more

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The difference between an average surgeon and a master surgeon is often an ability to navigate and resolve surgical complications. Complications in Orthopaedics: Pediatrics provides expert guidance and offers real solutions to improve patient outcomes, both for the trainee and for the experienced surgeon. This brand new volume in the new Complications in Orthopaedics series from Dr. Stephen R. Thompson, co-editor of Miller’s Orthopaedics and DeLee & Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, and Dr. Matthew R. Schmitz, focuses on how to get out of the weeds, with practical, use-now advice on pediatric trauma, upper extremity, spine, lower extremity, and neuromuscular/congenital disorders.

Key features

  • Describes how to navigate the most common or most devastating errors and complications in pediatric orthopaedic surgery, combining the breadth of knowledge of academic surgeons with the “‘in-the-trenches” skills of community surgeons
  • Follows a templated, reader-friendly format throughout
  • Emphasizes how to recognize and avoid errors, with thorough coverage of preoperative errors, intraoperative issues, and postoperative complications
  • Includes video clips, clinical images, and MRI and CT scans to enhance and reinforce the material
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Readership

Orthopaedic surgeons/ residents

Table of contents

Section 1 Pediatric Trauma

1. Proximal Humerus and Clavicle Complications

2. Supracondylar Humerus Fractures

3. Lateral Condyle Fractures

4. Medial Condyle and Medial Epicondyle Fractures

5. Forearm Fractures

6. Complications of Distal Radius and Ulna Fractures in Children

7. Hand/Finger Fractures

8. Complications in Pediatric Cervical Spine Trauma

9. Complications in Thoracolumbar Spine Trauma

10. Complications in Pediatric Pelvic and Proximal Femur Fractures

11. Complications in the Treatment of Pediatric Femoral Shaft Fractures

12. Fractures About the Knee

13. Complications in Tibial Shaft Fractures

14. Ankle Fractures

15. Foot Fractures

Section 2 Upper Extremity

16. Brachial Plexus Reconstruction

17. Syndactyly

18. Complications in Surgery of the Thumb

19. Cubitus Varus/Valgus Correction

Section 3 Spine

20. Complications in the Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

21. Complications in the Treatment of Neuromuscular Spine

22. Congenital Spine Deformities

23. Complications in Kyphosis in Children

24. Pediatric Complications: Growing Rod Treatment

Section 4 Lower Extremity

25. Complications Associated With Management of Septic Arthritis of the Hip in Pediatric Patients

26. Complications of Closed Reduction of Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip

27. Complications in Open Treatment of Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip

28. Complications of the Periacetabular Osteotomy for Treatment of Adolescent Hip Dysplasia

29. Proximal Femoral Osteotomies

30. Complications of Surgical Treatment of Perthes Disease

31. Complications in Treatment of Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis

32. Complications in Surgical Management of Adolescent Blount Disease

33. Complications Associated with Epiphysiodesis and Hemiepiphysiodesis

34. Surgical Management of Clubfoot

35. Complications in Pediatric Flatfoot Reconstruction

36. Tarsal Coalition Resection

37. Cavus Foot Correction

Section 5 Neuromuscular/Congenital Disorders

38. Osteotomies for Osteogenesis Imperfecta

39. Spastic Hip Dislocation

40. Complications of Upper Extremity Surgery for Neuromuscular Disorders

41. Complications in Lower Extremity Soft Tissue Surgery in Neuromuscular Patients

Review quotes

"This book is a volume in the series Complications in Orthopaedics. This book deals with injuries and disorders in children and adolescents." ©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Edward Abraham, MD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine), Doody’s Score: 91 – 4 Stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 12, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Stephen R. Thompson

Stephen R. Thompson, MD, MEd, FRCSC is a sports medicine orthopaedic surgeon at Northern Light Orthopedics. He completed his medical school at the University of Sydney, Residency at University of Maryland and Fellowship at the Fowler-Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic in London, Ontario and then his second at the Oakville Sports Injury Clinic in Oakville, Ontario. Dr. Thompson is a recognized expert in sports medicine. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the widely used and highly respected reference textbook DeLee and Drez’s Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. Dr. Thompson has spent a significant time studying medical education and standardized testing. He has applied this knowledge in his role as the Editor-in-Chief of Miller's Review of Orthopaedics.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Sports Medicine, Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, University of Maine, Bangor, Maine, USA

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Matthew Schmitz

Affiliations and expertise
Chief, Pediatric Orthopaedics and Young Adult HipPreservation, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, USA