Musculoskeletal Current Awareness August 2011

Clinical Librarian Service

Current Awareness Bulletin

Musculoskeletal

August 2011

Contents:

1. New and Updated Cochrane Systematic Reviews:

2. NICE Guidelines:

3. Systematic Reviews:

4. Other relevant articles:

5. Latest Journal Table of Contents:

1. New and Updated Cochrane Systematic Reviews:

For the full text of the Cochrane Systematic Reviews please click on the title. We have included the Author’s Conclusion so you can speedily see if a therapy change is indicated. Author’s Conclusions are taken directly from the Cochrane Website  and represent the work of the author.

1) Pin site care for preventing infections associated with external bone fixators and pins

Author’s conclusions: The available trial evidence was not extensive, was very heterogeneous and generally of poor quality, so there was insufficient evidence to be able to identify a strategy of pin site care that minimises infection rates. Adequately-powered randomised trials are required to examine the effects of different pin care regimens, and co-interventions - such as antibiotic use - and other extraneous factors must be controlled in the study designs.

Lethaby A, Temple J, Santy J. Pin site care for preventing infections associated with external bone fixators and pins. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 4.

2. NICE Guidelines:

There were no new NICE Guidelines published in August 2011 for Musculoskeletal.

3. Systematic Reviews:

For abstracts of the reviews below please click on the titles. There may be a link to full text in the top right hand corner of the webpage. You may have to log in using your NHS Athens username and password, if you don’t have one go to Register for Athens and register for free.

If full text is not available then please contact us to request a copy. This is a free service but you will need to complete our Article Request Form. Or you may email Aneesa directly quoting the number(s) of the articles you would like.    

2) Complications after minimally invasive total knee arthroplasty as compared with traditional incision techniques: a meta-analysis

3) Centralization and the relationship between volume and outcome in knee arthroplasty procedures

4) Does the new generation of high-flex knee prostheses improve the post-operative range of movement? A meta-analysis

 

4. Other relevant articles:

For abstracts of the articles below please click on the titles. There may be a link to full text in the top right hand corner of the webpage. You may have to log in using your NHS Athens username and password, if you don’t have one go to Register for Athens and register for free.

If full text is not available then please contact us to request a copy. This is a free service but you will need to complete our Article Request Form. Or you may email Aneesa directly quoting the number(s) of the articles you would like.      

5) Spino-pelvic parameters after surgery can be predicted: a preliminary formula and validation of standing alignment

6) Conservative treatment of chronic Achilles tendinopathy

7) Limitations of imageless computer-assisted navigation for total hip arthroplasty

8) Mobile-bearing total knee arthroplasty: a meta-analysis

9) Evidence summary: systematic review of surgical treatments for geriatric hip fractures

10) Above- or below-elbow casts for distal third forearm fractures in children? A meta-analysis of the literature

11) Causes and Effects of Surgical Delay in Patients With Hip Fracture: A Cohort Study

12) Comparative Effectiveness of Pain Management Interventions for Hip Fracture: A Systematic Review

13) Hip Fracture: A Complex Illness Among Complex Patients

5. Latest Journal Table of Contents:

If you would like full text of any of the articles listed in the below journals then please contact us to request a copy. This is a free service but you will need to complete our Article Request Form. Or you may email Aneesa directly quoting the number(s) of the articles you would like.      

14) Archives of Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgery

15) BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

16) Current Orthopaedic Practice

17) International Journal Of Orthopaedic And Trauma Nursing

18) Journal of back and musculoskeletal rehabilitation

19) Journal of Orthopaedic Research

20) Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

21) Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

22) Musculoskeletal Care

23) Musculoskeletal surgery

24) Orthopaedic Nursing

For more information please contact the Musculoskeletal Clinical Librarian: Pip Divall

Education Centre Library Leicester General Hospital, LE5 4PW

Telephone: 0116 2588124 Email: pip.divall@uhl-tr.nhs.uk http://www.uhl-library.nhs.uk/cl_pipdivall.html

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