Banning the Flames

Terry Stanton

People know that things can go wrong in the operating room. But most would probably not name fire as a potential hazard, especially fire burning on or near a patient. Yet such fires occur approximately 550 to 650 times a year, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the ECRI Institute (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute).

Fighting Osteoarthritis with Tissue Engineering

Mark Crawford

Nicole Belkin knows cartilage. While playing rugby at the University of Florida she sustained a traumatic rupture of her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Although her ACL was reconstructed, she still has symptomatic cartilage lesions, which can interfere with normal movement and create discomfort. Now, as a resident physician at the University of Pennsylvania’s (UPenn) department of orthopaedic surgery in Philadelphia, Nicole S.

American Joint Replacement Registry Continues to Grow

Initiative has collected data on more than 30,000 total joint arthroplasty procedures Caryn D. Etkin, PhD, MPH, and Susan E. Hobson, MPH The American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR) has been making tremendous progress toward its goal of becoming the first comprehensive national hip and knee orthopaedic implant registry in the United States. In 2011, the registry completed a pilot program that collected data on more than 3,600 total joint arthroplasty (TJA) procedures.