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Timing of Humeral Shaft Fracture Repair Does Not Affect Risk of Iatrogenic Radial Nerve Injury
Radial nerve palsy is common after reduction and fixation of diaphyseal humerus fractures, which often influences patients to pursue nonsurgical management. Mass General researchers were part of the first team to evaluate whether earlier surgery reduces the risk.
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Most Patients Believe Marijuana Is Effective for Pain Relief After Musculoskeletal Injury
With medical marijuana becoming legal in many states, patients want to know whether it can help them during orthopedic trauma recovery. Mass General physicians led the first research team to investigate.
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Greater Opioid Intake After Ankle Fracture Linked to Increased Pain
After fracture surgery, patients who consume more opioids do not experience less pain or greater satisfaction than patients who consume lower amounts of opioid medication, according to past studies. Mass General researchers wondered whether the same was true specifically for ankle fracture surgery.
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Closed Operative Treatment Often Feasible for Tongue-type Calcaneal Fractures
Closed reduction internal fixation usually yields sufficient fixation and results in fewer infectious complications, compared with open surgery, in the treatment of tongue-type calcaneal fractures.
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Elderly Fracture Care Lowers Patient Risk and Length of Stay
Mass General's geriatric inpatient fracture program uses a co-management model and age-specific protocols to improve fracture treatment and care transitions.
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Discussions About Palliative Care Are Influenced by Type of Illness
Natural language processing of documentation about code status clarification and goals-of-care discussions showed that these types of communication are influenced by the type of illness.
Trauma contributors
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Marilyn M. Heng, MD, MPH, FRCSC
Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon, Instructor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Closed Operative Treatment Often Feasible for Tongue-type Calcaneal Fractures
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Mitchel B. Harris, MD
Chief, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon
Recent Article
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