General Principles

Editors: Joseph M. Lane, MD, FAAOS and Yelena Bogdan, MD, FAAOS, FACS

Section 1: Principles of Surgical Care 

  • Subsection: Principles of Surgical Care
  • Patient Optimization
  • Safety, Infection Prevention, and Antibiotic Prophylaxis
  • Subsection: Intraoperative Topics
  • Surgical Positioning and Monitoring
  • Tourniquets
  • Principles of Wound Closure
  • Subsection: Selected Surgical Techniques
  • Opioids and Narcotic Analgesia
  • Subsection: Anesthesia and Pain Management
  • General Anesthesia
  • Regional Anesthesia
  • Local Anesthesia

Section 2: Principles of Imaging

  • Radiography and Fluoroscopy
  • Computed Tomography
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Ultrasonography
  • Radiation Safety
  • Molecular Imaging
  • Imaging of Bone Mineral Density

Section 3: Practice Management

  • Subsection: General Principles of Practice Management
  • Contracts and Negotiations
  • Ancillary Partnerships and Income
  • Risk Management
  • Subsection: Medicolegal Issues
  • Informed Consent
  • Leadership Development
  • Subsection: Medical Ethics
  • Fundamentals of Performance and Process Improvement
  • Patient-Reported Outcome Measures
  • Cultural Competence
  • Medicolegal Issues Basic Science: Clinical Science
  • Billing and Coding
  • Workers’ Compensation
  • Medical Ethics

Section 4: Principles of General Management of Systemic Disease

  • Subsection: Conditions With Common Orthopaedic Manifestations
  • Autoimmune Disease and Steroid Use
  • Diabetes Mellitus
  • Subsection: Systemic Diseases and Disorders
  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Evaluation of the Orthopaedic Patient Undergoing Cancer Therapy
  • Venous Thromboembolic Disease
  • Subsection: Psychiatric/Social Consequences of Orthopaedic Problems
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Osteonecrosis
  • Metabolic Bone Diseases
  • Treatment of Geriatric Orthopaedic Patients