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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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Establishing Postpartum PTSD After Traumatic Childbirth
A Massachusetts General Hospital psychiatrist is working to establish formal recognition of childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder (CB-PTSD). Her work aims to inform healthcare providers that postpartum PTSD differs from postpartum depression.
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Pathways Case Record: A Case on Post-Splenectomy Persistent Thromboembolism
The Pathways Service investigated the case of patient with a past medical history of a truck collision 15 years prior that led to multiple orthopedic surgeries of his extremities and a traumatic splenectomy. He has since formed and maintained persistent thrombi and pulmonary embolisms despite being on anticoagulants.
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Risk-Stratification Tool Guides Surveillance After Pediatric Closed-Globe Traumatic Hyphema
Ankoor S. Shah, MD, PhD, a pediatric ophthalmologist at Mass Eye and Ear/Mass General, and colleagues have created the first risk-stratification algorithm that guides decisions about how frequently children and teens need follow-up after closed-globe injury with hyphema.
Orthopaedic Trauma Contributors
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Marilyn M. Heng, MD, MPH, FRCSC
Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon, Instructor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Hemorrhage Control After Pelvic Trauma: Mass General Algorithm Incorporates Debated Approaches
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Mitchel B. Harris, MD
Chief, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital, William H. and Johanna A. Harris Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Transferred Patients With Lower Extremity Fractures Are at High-Risk of Major Complications
Orthopaedic Care at Mass General
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