Full Description
The difference between an average surgeon and a master surgeon is often an ability to navigate and resolve surgical complications. Complications in Orthopaedics: Foot and Ankle Surgery provides expert guidance and offers real solutions to improve patient outcomes, for both the trainee and the experienced surgeon. This brand-new volume in the Complications in Orthopaedics series from series editor Dr. Stephen R. Thompson, along with expert surgeons Drs. Amiethab Aiyer, Ettore Vulcano, and Jonathan Kaplan, focuses on how to recognize and avoid errors during foot and ankle surgery, with thorough coverage of preoperative errors, intraoperative issues, and postoperative complications.
Helps you navigate a wide variety of inevitable difficult situations in foot and ankle surgery, whether errors in judgment, technical mistakes, or unavoidable outcomes
Covers key topics such as patient safety, informed decision making, improved postoperative care, quality improvement, multidisciplinary collaboration, and more
Features a full-color design with numerous photographs, radiographs, and illustrations
Includes video clips to enhance and reinforce the material
Follows a templated, reader-friendly format throughout
Includes introductory material on relevant anatomy and necessary background information
An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
Contents
Forefoot
Hallux Valgus
1. Osteotomy (distal/proximal)
2. LapidusHallux
Rigidus
3. Cheilectomy
4. Arthrodesis
5. Arthroplasty
Lesser Toes
6. Hammertoe
7. Plantar plate tear
8. Digital neuroma
Midfoot
Trauma/Sequelae
9. Lisfranc injury
10. Midfoot arthritis
11. Fifth metatarsal fractures
12. Charcot neuroarthropathy
Hindfoot
Trauma
13. Calcaneal fracture
14. Talus fracture
Deformity
15. Flatfoot Deformity (PCFD)
16. Cavovarus
17. Deformity after hindfoot fusion
Ankle
Trauma
18. Ankle fracture (including acute syndesmotic/deltoid injuries)
19. Pilon injuries
Arthroplasty
20. TAR Infection
21. TAR loosening
22. Arthrodesis after failed TAR
Infection
23. Soft tissues infection, foot & ankle
24. Osteomyelitis
Sports/Soft Tissue
25. Achilles Rupture
26. Peroneal tendinopathy/tears
27. Talar/tibial osteochondral defect
28. Deltoid ligament sprain/rupture
29. Chronic lateral ankle instability
