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Orthopedic Surgery
Bones, joints and the injured limb: fracture fixation from plates to nails, the hip fracture pathway that defines care of the older patient, arthroplasty that trades a worn joint for a working one, and the emergencies, open fractures, compartments, septic joints, where limbs are saved or lost.
Backdrop: Anteroposterior X-ray of a total hip arthroplasty · Mikael Häggström, M.D · CC0
The operations
Procedures
What the specialty does in theatre, with the imagery that goes with it.
What the specialty does in theatre: each operation with its image, its indication, and the doors into OR prep and the step-by-step walkthrough.
Featured operation
Total hip arthroplasty
The operation of the century by results: the worn joint is replaced by a cup, a stem and a bearing, and a life's mobility often comes back with it.
Indication: End-stage hip arthritis with failed conservative care; displaced intracapsular neck-of-femur fractures in the right patient.
Common and emergency operations
The rest of the list
Hub shaped by the Surgical Specialties Lead with the Orthopaedic surgery reviewer (open seat). Images and videos carry their source; educational use for supervised learning, not clinical guidance.