Complications in Orthopaedics: Pediatrics, 1st Edition

By: Matthew R. Schmitz, MD, MEd, FRCSC

ISBN: 9780323873970

Publication Date: December 11, 2023

Reviewer: Edward Abraham, MD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)

Description

This book is a volume in the series Complications in Orthopaedics. This book deals with injuries and disorders in children and adolescents.

Purpose

The editors’ purpose is to help orthopedic surgeons improve their ability to recognize and avoid potential complications. This is a most worthy aim.

Audience

The audience is orthopedic surgeons, orthopedic fellows, and resident trainees. The volume’s editor is a professor of clinical orthopedic surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine, works at Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, California, and is fully qualified to oversee this publication. The Series Editor is an associate professor at University of Maine, Banger, Maine.

Features

The book is divided into five sections: pediatric trauma, upper extremity, lower extremity, and neuromuscular and congenital disorders. The chapters are generally divided into introduction, non-operative, preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative complications, and conclusion. The authors draw from their personal experience, and they use the literature extensively when necessary. The important chapter on distal radius and ulnar fractures is thorough and very well illustrated with clinical color photographs, radiographs, and tables. The recommendations made in the chapters to avoid complications are sound and current with one exception. The authors of the supracondylar humerus fractures chapter are of the opinion that the safest course to prevent complications “is to perform CRPP fixation of all except true Gartland I SCH fractures”, a very controversial opinion. The references are abundant and the index is adequate. The photos, illustrations, and radiographs are of excellent quality. The publishers provided an ebook.

Assessment

This book is most timely and well produced by the publishers. It is very highly recommended to all orthopedists treating children and adolescents.

©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Edward Abraham, MD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine), Doody’s Score: 91 – 4 Stars!

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