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Editorial
26 October 2009
It’s difficult to believe that just over a year ago I was one of the first student nurses to gain a free delegates place at the 23rd Society for Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing at Llandudno, Wales in t...
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Sarah Richardson
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163-164
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New oral anticoagulants to revolutionise venous thromboembolism (VTE) management
23 October 2009
Summary: Warfarin, a vitamin K antagonist has been the mainstay of venous thromboembolism treatment for over 60years. However, it has significant limitations in relation to achieving a safe and therap...
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Ricky Autar
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165-171
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A health comparison of Alabama nurses versus US, UK, and Canadian normative populations
17 July 2009
Summary: This article is one of a two part series examining the people and environment associated with patient handling. The approach used was that of an occupational injury investigation of a job cla...
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G. Talley Holman,
Robert E. Thomas,
Kathleen C. Brown
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172-182
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Development and evaluation of a Continuity of Care Checklist for improving orthopaedic patient discharge from hospital
25 August 2009
Summary: In this study, we developed and evaluated a Continuity of Care Checklist (CCC) to assist nurses in comprehensively reviewing practices related to continuity of care for orthopaedic patients d...
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Heather D. Hadjistavropoulos,
Sharon Garratt,
Jennifer Amy Janzen,
Michelle D. Bourgault-Fagnou,
Kerry Spice
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183-193
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Quality of life issues for patients following traumatic brachial plexus injury – Part 1 A Literature review
05 October 2009
Summary: This paper introduces the brachial plexus anatomy with mechanisms of injury and proceeds to explore outcome assessment tools before a range of quality of life issues is addressed.
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Beverley Wellington
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194-200
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| Continuing Professional Education |
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Formula for converting mmHg to kPa as the unit for measurement of pressure when using newer tourniquet machines that measure pressure using the SI (Systeme International)
14 July 2009
Summary: Tourniquets use is common in hand surgery. The correct tourniquet pressure is important to achieve a bloodless operating field and to prevent tourniquet syndrome and tourniquet paralysis synd...
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Manohar Arumugam
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201-203
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The emergence of specialist orthopaedic nurses and nurse-led pre-operative assessment in the 1990s
26 October 2009
Summary: The article considers the development of orthopaedic nursing roles in the United Kingdom in the 1990s. The nurse practitioner role within pre-operative assessment clinics and other roles rela...
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Brian Lucas
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204-207
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The Excellence in Practice Accreditation Scheme (EPAS): The quest for excellence amidst uncertainty and change? (Keynote)
The provision of accessible, equitable high quality care and services is difficult for health and social care teams and organisations to achieve. The ideal is a high quality service delivered locally ...
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Robert McSherry
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208
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Best practice of patient with a hip fracture (Plenary)
Hip fractures constitute a serious and common health problem among older adults from both the individual and the public health perspectives. For persons over 80 years of age, hip fracture is the most ...
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Ami Hommel
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208-209
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Delirium: Clearing up the confusion (Plenary)
Hip fractures are expected to account for an ever increasing percentage of admission to the acute care setting, numbers projected to reach a half-million in the USA by the year 2040 (AAOS, CDC). A com...
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Anita Meehan
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209
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‘Back–pedaling’. Transferability of skills in orthopaedics (Plenary)
This paper will explore the transition from hospital based secondary care into general practice based primary care – from consultant nurse to primary care nurse clinician. It will explore what is in a...
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Margaret Flanagan
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209-210
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Enhancing orthopaedic/fracture trauma within Northern Ireland with a focus on children’s nursing (Plenary)
This paper aims to highlight educational developments that enhance children’s nursing practice. exploration of orthopaedic nursing suggested that the United Kingdom’s (UK) non-standard initial nurse ...
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Sonya Clarke
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210
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The inspiration of bones; a dip in the past (Plenary)
The presentation focuses on the study of bones from archaeological sources, many of which show the ravages of diseases and injuries still common to us today. This gives insight into the lives of the p...
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Christine Knight
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210-211
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Getting evidence into practice – The PARIHS way (Workshop)
The implementation of evidence into practice is an area of health care that, despite much research, still has limited sustainable success. The literature has widely recognised that a theory practice g...
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Brian McGuire
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211
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Pilot study on the existence of empowering education of orthopaedic patients in Greece (Concurrent)
Introduction: Total joint arthroplasty constitutes a common surgical operation with beneficial results. Patient education, through empowerment, can support patients in their recovery so that they self...
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Panagiota Copanitsanou,
Panayota Sourtzi,
Kirsi Johanson,
Chryssoula Lemonidou
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211-212
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Finnish pilot study of empowering patient education from the point of view of orthopaedic patients and their significant others (Concurrent)
Introduction: Orthopaedic procedures are some of the most common major surgical procedures in western countries and have beneficial short-term and long-term effects. Patient education plays a major ro...
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Johansson Kirsi,
Lehtikunnas Tuij,
Leino-Kilpi Helena
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212
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Ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patients’ anxiety with Internet-based education (Concurrent)
Introduction: Earlier studies indicate that patients undergoing surgery suffer anxiety. There is, however, little evidence about the effect of Internet-based education to reduce anxiety.
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Katja Heikkinen
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212-213
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Patient-perceived health-related quality of life after total hip arthroplasty (Concurrent)
The prevalence of osteoarthritis will increase as the population ages. Osteoarthritis of the hip causes pain and impairs patients’ function and psychosocial well-being. Total hip arthroplasty has been...
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Liisa Montin
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213
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Pneumatic tourniquet: Irish orthopaedic nurses experiences (Concurrent)
Pneumatic (inflatable) tourniquets are used worldwide for a variety of extremity surgeries and anaesthesia (Biers block) to temporarily control the circulation of blood. However, they exert both syste...
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Caroline O. Connor, Siobhan Murphy
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213
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Evaluation of the coping methods used by knee osteoarthritis patients for pain and their effect on the disease-specific quality of life (Concurrent)
Aim: Osteoarthritis (OA), which can lead to marked functional loss and pain, has a high incidence in the population over 50. It has a negative effect on daily activities and quality of life. The aim o...
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Semra Aciksoz,
Senay Uzun,
Servet Tunay
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213-214
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Individualised care from the orthopaedic nurses’ point of view: A cross-cultural comparative survey (Concurrent)
International cross-cultural comparative nursing research is considered important for the advancement of nursing knowledge, offering a global perspective for nursing. Although this is recognised in po...
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Riitta Suhonen,
M. Välimäki,
H. Leino-Kilpi,
J. Katajisto,
E. Papastavrou,
C. Lemonidou,
M. Kalafati,
M. da Luz,
A. Berg,
E. Idvall,
R. Acaroglu,
L. Land,
V. Sousa
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214
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Tilting at windmills (Concurrent)
Just then they came in sight of 30 or 40 windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, “Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselve...
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Jacqui Hitchen,
Angela Whelan
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214-215
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Pain management in the pre-operative period for patients with a fractured neck of femur (Concurrent)
The initial aim of the study was to investigate the practicalities of training nurses to perform nerve blocks for patients with a fractured neck of femur (#NOF), in the pre-operative period. There are...
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Lynn Grigg,
Adrianne Randall
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215
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Elderly patients’ experiences of fracturing a hip (Concurrent)
The aim of this presentation is to explore a study of the experiences of individuals who had suffered a hip fracture and who were recovering in an acute Orthopaedic ward. The aim was not to produce ge...
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Jason Busuttil
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215-216
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Comparison of two different of nursing interventions for knee osteoarthritis patients in the community in northern Thailand (Concurrent)
This study used a quasi-experimental design and qualitative techniques to investigate two different nursing interventions designed for knee osteoarthritis patients in the community in Thailand. The ai...
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Rangsiya Narin
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216
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The effect of perceived social support on disease-specific quality of life in patients with knee osteoarthritis (Concurrent)
Aim: This study is designed to examine the effect of perceived social support on disease-specific quality of life in patients with knee osteoarthritis who were seen in orthopaedic and traumatology out...
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Semra Aciksoz,
Filiz Arslan,
Servet Tunay,
Senay Uzun
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216-217
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Collaborative working to improve the return of patients to their usual place of residence following fractured neck of femur (Concurrent)
This paper reports on multi-disciplinary, collaborative working that improved the care and outcomes for patients’ following fractured neck of femur (NOF), within the Orthopaedic Directorate in one Dis...
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Ruth Clemow
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217
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To screen or not to screen? The role of school screening in the management of mild and moderate scoliosis curves (Concurrent)
Scoliosis is a three dimensional deformity that results in a lateral curvature of the spine combined with a rib-hump and an accompanying thoracic lordosis. Left untreated scoliosis can result in pain,...
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Josette Bettany-Saltikov
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217-218
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Risk assessment for musculoskeletal disorders in the hospital environment (Concurrent)
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) that are related to occupation appear to be the most common health problems. According to Eurostat data in the European Union, 25–27% of workers complain about lower ba...
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Helen Tsintzou,
Panayota Sourtzi
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218
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Delirium in elderly patients with hip fractures (Concurrent)
A hip fracture is sustained by 250,000 Americans every year, and that number is expected to double by 2040. The most frequent complication associated with hip fracture in elderly patients is postopera...
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Veronica Braganza
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218-219
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Unfolding patient’s needs-a Maltese approach (Concurrent)
The move to a specifically designed acute hospital, nearly two years ago, brought with it the need for innovative clinical nursing practices, where the patient is viewed as the centre of care. It was ...
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Carmel Grima,
Rosalie Sammut
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219
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A new low cost method for the assessment of patients with poor back posture and scoliosis: 3D Mapping of 100 Subjects (Poster)
Background: Assessment and retraining of posture is a traditionally integral physiotherapeutic intervention in the treatment of back pain with the benefit of postural correction exercises for the reli...
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Josette Bettany-Saltikov,
Julian Warren-Senior
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219-220
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The prognostic value of the quality of life parameters in patients with idiopathic scoliosis treated operatively (Poster)
Introduction: In recent years the research on quality of life has become one of the most important diagnostic as well as the prognostic factors of the functional state of people regardless of illness....
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Bozena Gorzkowicz,
M. Kolban,
Z. Szych
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220
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Greek orthopaedic patients’ perceptions regarding nursing care (Poster)
Background: Patient’s perceptions of care received are increasingly acknowledged as important in evaluating and developing health care services. A huge amount of literature can be found that discussed...
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Maria Kalafati,
Riitta Suhonen,
Perikllis Dedousis,
Crryssoula Lemonidou
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220-221
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International comparison of surgical osteoarthritis patient education (Poster)
Intrduction: Successful patient education during surgical treatment improves patients’ empowerment, symptom management and quality of life. This international research project aims to evaluate and imp...
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Kirsi Johansson,
E. Cabrera,
A. Charalambous,
P. Copanitsanou,
B. Ingadottir,
N. Istomina,
Å. Johansson-Stark,
D. Kyrlus,
C. Lemonidou,
E. Papastavrou,
A. Sigurdardottir,
P. Sourtzi,
K. Thorarinsdottir,
M. Unosson,
A. Zabalegui,
H. Leino-Kilpi
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221
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| Policy Reviews |
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Policy reviews
23 October 2009
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222-223
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Literature reviews
28 October 2009
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224-226
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