Dear NOF members and others interested in Acta Orthopaedica, | Acta Orthopaedica's Newsletter will now be published twice a month. Included in this second letter for June you will find information regarding the postponement of the NOF Congress, how to join our mailing list, 2 selected article highlights, and a clickable list of the 5 latest publications.
Best regards,
Anders Rydholm
Editor-in-chief |
|
|
| Postponement Nordic Orthopaedic Federation Congress until 7–9 September, 2022 |  | | Due to the Russian attack on Ukraine and the resulting uncertain situation, also regarding Lithuania, the NOF has decided to postpone the 2022 congress (scheduled from May 10 – 13) to September 7 – 9, 2022. The precourse will take place on Tuesday September 6. We are deeply indebted to the Lithuanian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology for organizing this event on a new date. We invite you all to register for the NOF congress in September and we look forward to meeting you all in a peaceful Vilnius! | | | | | | | | | Join our mailing list | This newsletter circulated twice a month should have been forwarded to you as a NOF member by your national society head (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands). This mode of distribution can, however, be slow or unreliable due to outdated contact information. An alternate way to ensure that you receive this newsletter directly as it is published is to join our mailing list by clicking on the link below. | | | | | | |
|
|
Pain medication purchases before and after total hip and knee arthroplasty: a register study of 329,743 arthroplasties
Ville Turppo, Reijo Sund, Jukka Huopio, Heikki Kröger, Joonas Sirola
Acta Orthop 2022; 93: 534-541.
Opioid addiction is a case for concern. In this study all THA and TKA cases in Finland between 1998 and 2018 and the drug purchases made by patients during 1997–2018 were analysed using linked Finnish register data.
THA patients purchased more opioids than TKA patients before arthroplasty. After arthroplasty, TKA patients had a higher proportion of opioid purchases.
Neither NSAID nor opioid purchases were reduced when postoperative results were compared with the results from 1 to 3 years before arthroplasty. However, the postoperative levels of NSAID and opioid purchases were on similar levels to those among the general population. This could indicate that the patients had other diseases causing drug purchases. However, they may also have developed an addiction or a habit of treating pain with opioids
Li Felländer-Tsai, Co-Editor |
| | Progressive proximal loosening of initially well-fixed bilateral Corail stems: a case report and review of the literature
Michael G Johnston, Kade E Eppich, Celeste Gray, Matthew A Porter, David F Scott
Acta Orthop 2022; 93: 542-346.
This study used logistic regression analyses to examine patient-related factors associated with the length of return to work (RTW) after ACL reconstruction (ACLR). A register cohort comprising all employees working in the public sector in Finland who had worked a minimum of 6 months between 1991 and 2010 in Finland were studied. The mean length of RTW was 65 days (SD 41).
Patients in manual labor, older than 40 years, and patients on sick leave over 30 days prior to surgery had higher odds of a slower RTW time after ACLR compared with other groups.
Sex, comorbid conditions, preceding antidepressant treatment and concomitant procedures were not associated with the length of RTW
Li Felländer-Tsai, Co-Editor |
|
|
|
|
