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Pages in category "Orthopedic clinical prediction rules" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In medicine, the Ottawa ankle rules are a set of guidelines for clinicians to help decide if a patient with foot or ankle pain should be offered X-rays to diagnose a possible bone fracture. Before the introduction of the rules most patients with ankle injuries would have been imaged.
The Ottawa knee rules are a set of rules used to help physicians determine whether an x-ray of the knee is needed. [1]They state that an X-ray is required only in patients who have an acute knee injury with one or more of the following:
Plates vi & vii of the Edwin Smith Papyrus (around the 17th century BC), among the earliest medical guidelines. A medical guideline (also called a clinical guideline, standard treatment guideline, or clinical practice guideline) is a document with the aim of guiding decisions and criteria regarding diagnosis, management, and treatment in specific areas of healthcare.
International Orthopaedics is an official journal of SICOT. The Journal is published monthly by Springer Verlag, and is distributed to 50,000 surgeons in electronic format and in 3,200 printed issues for libraries and special subscribers. It has an impact factor of 2.7 (2022).
Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical means to treat musculoskeletal injuries, sports injuries, degenerative diseases, infections, bone tumours, and congenital limb deformities. Trauma surgery and traumatology is a sub-specialty dealing with the operative management of fractures , major trauma and the multiply-injured patient.
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The Orthopaedic Trauma Association Committee for Coding and Classification initially published their classification system covering the whole skeleton in 1996. [5] In 2006 [6] they published a revision, unifying the Muller/AO and OTA systems into a single alphanumeric classification, which has been further updated in 2018: [7]