Session VIII - Upper Extremity Saturday, October 10, 1998

Moderator: Kenneth D. Johnson, MD
9:36 a.m. Functional Outcome and General Health Status following Hemiarthoplasty for Proximal Humeral Fractures

Michael McKee, MD, FRCS(C); Tammy Znajda; Hans J. Kreder, MD FRCS (C); Emil H. Schemitsch, MD, FRCS (C); David J.G. Stephen, MD, FRCS (C); Daniel Yoo, BSc; St. Michael's Hospital, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

9:42 a.m. *Does the Translated Surgical Neck Humerus Fracture Need Fixation?

Ashima Garg, MD, PhD; Margaret M. McQueen, MD, FRCS Ed (Orth), Charles M. Court-Brown, MD, FRCS Ed (Orth); Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh NHS Trust, Edinburgh, Scotland

9:54 a.m. Fracture-Dislocation of the Elbow: The Risk of Recurrent Instability According to Injury Pattern

David Ring, MD; Jesse B. Jupiter, MD; Jeffrey Zilberfarb, MD; Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

10:00 a.m. Complications of Olecranon Osteotomies

Clifford B. Jones, MD; Sean E. Nork, MD; Julie Agel, MA; Douglas P. Hanel, MD; M. Bradford Henley, MD, University of Washington, Harborview Hospital, Seattle, WA

10:12 a.m. The Importance of the Distal Radio-Ulnar Joint in Distal Radial Fractures

Daniël V.C. Stoffelen, MD, PhD; Paul L.O. Broos, MD, PhD, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

10:18 a.m. A Randomized Prospective Trial of Humeral Shaft Fracture Fixation: Compression Plate vs. Intramedullary Nail

R. G. McCormack, MD, FRCS (C); D. Brien; Richard E. Buckley, MD, FRCS (C); Michael D. McKee, MD, FRCS (C); James N. Powell, MD, FRCS (C); Emil H. Schemitsch, MD, FRCS (C); Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, BC; Foothills Medical Center, Calgary, AB; St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON

10:24 a.m. Major Pediatric Hand Trauma Associated with Fireworks

Virak Tan, MD; Richard S. Moore, Jr., MD; John P. Dormans, MD; David J. Bozentka, MD, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC