Orthopaedics
We publish case reports as an aid to MPS members, to alert them to pitfalls that have caught their colleagues unawares. We believe that these are an invaluable risk-management tool and, as such, they should be rooted in fact – i.e. based on actual events.
Here are some orthopaedics cases published in recent editions of Casebook.
- Who's changed my list? - January 2008
- Too long to run - January 2008
- Following, not leading - September 2007
- An orthopaedic emergency - May 2007
- Back again with cauda equina syndrome - January 2007
- Moot myelopathy
- Scarred for life?
- Tourniquet trouble
- Dislocated care
- Don't ignore radiating back pain
- Could it make me worse?
- No knuckling under
- A crucial x-ray overlooked
- Complications happen
- No notes, no leg to stand on
- Misplaced injection
- Duty to warn
- A tight situation
- Shouldering responsibility