Firearm Injury Prevention
Firearm Injury Prevention Douglas J. Wiebe Edmund M. Weisberg Reducing the overall level of violent acts committed in our society is a necessary goal. Violence committed with firearms specifically is…
Trauma System Management and Financing
Trauma System Management and Financing Paul A. Taheri Trauma centers and systems should be financed in a manner consistent with an integrated public health-trauma care plan. Individually, trauma centers function…
Quantifying Trauma System Effectiveness
Quantifying Trauma System Effectiveness Gerald McGwin Jr. The objective of this chapter is to provide an overview of issues related to quantifying trauma system effectiveness. In order to offer a…
Identifying Trauma System Components
Identifying Trauma System Components Paul M. Maggio In the United States, injuries are the leading cause of death for ages 1 to 44 and are the fourth leading cause of…
Disaster Management
Disaster Management Eric R. Frykberg Health care providers and facilities have been confronted with an increasing number and frequency of catastrophic events in recent years, which result in large numbers…
Trauma Care and Trauma Systems: Past, Present, and Future
Trauma Care and Trauma Systems: Past, Present, and Future Donald D. Trunkey “What experience and history teach is this – that people and governments never have learned anything from history,…
External Fixation Methods for Salvage of Failed Total Ankle Arthroplasty
External Fixation Methods for Salvage of Failed Total Ankle Arthroplasty Paul S. Cooper INTRODUCTION Key to the surgeon’s approach to total arthroplasty is a clear strategy for salvage in both…
Conversion of Painful Ankle Arthrodesis to Total Ankle Replacement
Conversion of Painful Ankle Arthrodesis to Total Ankle Replacement Mark E. Easley Manuel J. Pellegrini INTRODUCTION Conversion of the painful ankle arthrodesis to total ankle replacement (TAR) remains controversial. Despite…
Polyethylene
Polyethylene Michael Aynardi David Pedowitz INTRODUCTION For more than five decades, polyethylene has been one of the most common bearing surface materials used in joint arthroplasty. Although total hip and…
The Zimmer Trabecular Metal Total Ankle System: Features and Techniques
The Zimmer Trabecular Metal Total Ankle System: Features and Techniques Stuart H. Myers Lew C. Schon INTRODUCTION DESIGN FEATURES The Zimmer Trabecular Metal (TM) total ankle implant has numerous design…
