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The AO Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the care of patients with musculoskeletal injuries or pathologies and their sequelae through research, development, and education of surgeons and operating room personnel.
AO classification. The Müller AO Classification of fractures is a system for classifying bone fractures initially published in 1987 [1] by the AO Foundation as a method of categorizing injuries according to therognosis of the patient's anatomical and functional outcome.
Colton has published articles and chapters in over 70 journals [11] [21] [22] [23] and books, including co-authoring the medical reference book, Atlas of Orthopaedic Surgical Approaches. [ 24 ] He was Executive Editor of the AO Surgery Reference online guide for orthopaedic surgeons 2005–2011.
Fracture with a dorsal tilt. Dorsal is left, and volar is right in the image. There are a number of ways to classify distal radius fractures.Classifications systems are devised to describe patterns of injury which will behave in predictable ways, to distinguish between conditions which have different outcomes or which need different treatments.
Orthopedic templating is a process wherein surgeons use either acetate templates or digital templates to estimate the correct size of the prosthesis to be used in surgery. The biggest educator on the subject has been AO/ASIF.
As with many words derived with the "æ" ligature, simplification to either "ae" or just "e" is common, especially in North America.In the US, the majority of college, university, and residency programmes, and even the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, still use the spelling with the digraph ae, though hospitals usually use the shortened form.
Hugh Owen Thomas, b. 1834, d. 1891 (aged 56), Welsh surgeon considered the father of orthopaedic surgery in Britain; Jean-Andre Venel, b. 1740, d. 1791 (aged 50), Swiss doctor and a pioneer in the field of orthopedics
Prior to the advent of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), OAS was the only surgical treatment available for aortic aneurysms. The shift away from open aortic surgery towards endovascular surgery since 2003 has been driven by worse perioperative mortality associated with OAS, particularly in patients in relatively frail health. [2]