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COVID-19 impact on hospitals worse than previously estimated

June 1, 2020 / Jeff Lagasse, Associate Editor When it became evident that the COVID-19 pandemic would spread across the U.S., lawmakers, scientists and healthcare leaders sought to predict what the financial and operational impact on hospitals would be. In those early days, policymakers relied on data from China, where the pandemic originated. Now, with the …

Meditech Spine Receives FDA Clearance for its CURE™ OPEL-L (S) system

ATLANTA, June 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Meditech Spine has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market the CURE™ Opel-L (S) system, a new lumbar plate option which expands upon the previously cleared CURE™ LP Plate System and compliments its Talos®-A (HA) Interbody system. With this approval, Meditech will now offer an Interbody/Plate assembly for the anterior lumbar spine. By …

OSN Talks with C. Lowry Barnes, M.D., New President of AAHKS

by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. C. Lowry Barnes, M.D., the new president of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS), took up his new position during an AAHKS Board of Directors video conference on March 25, 2020. Dr. Barnes, the esteemed chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Arkansas …

Coronavirus pandemic: Updates from around the world

June 1, 2020 / By Joshua Berlinger, Adam Renton and Emma Reynolds, CNN What you need to know The numbers: More than 6.1 million cases of Covid-19 have been reported worldwide, including at least 372,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.Brazil cases pass half a million: More than 514,000 infections have been recorded in the country — only the United States, …

Surgeons Taking New Steps to Build on Barricaid Facility Coding Success, Specialty Society Guidelines

Woburn, MA, June 2, 2020 – Physician enthusiasm is growing for Intrinsic’s Barricaid technology for managing lumbar disc herniation.  While elective surgeries have been put largely on hold throughout the country as a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency, expert surgeons have been working behind the scenes to build on recent coding success and …

DJO Launches New DonJoy X-ROM Post-Op Knee Brace

Vista, CA June 1, 2020 – DJO®, a leading global provider of medical technologies to get and keep people moving, introduces the new DonJoy® X-ROM™ Post-Op Knee Brace. Featuring DonJoy’s most advanced range of motion (ROM) protection and improved user-friendly design for faster, easier application and adjustment, the X-ROM™ brace helps patients recover from ACL …

More than half of patients feel somewhat safe about returning for elective procedures

May 29, 2020 / Jeff Lagasse, Associate Editor As the surge in COVID-19 patients begins to recede in some areas of the country, hospitals are considering when and how to resume elective procedures. But healthcare consumers may behave in unexpected ways. Health systems may overestimate how quickly or easily patients will want to move forward with …

Study: Hip Arthroscopy for OA=High Conversion to THR, Worse Outcomes

by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. A team of researchers from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) studying 2,600 patients has found that the percentage of patients with hip osteoarthritis (OA) who had a hip replacement within two years of hip arthroscopy was a whopping 68%. In addition, having undergone prior hip arthroscopy was associated with significantly …

7,000 Surgeries to Make Up: HSS Surgeon-in-Chief Bryan Kelly, M.D., M.B.A., Talks Reopening

by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Dr. Bryan T. Kelly, Surgeon-in-Chiefand Medical Director at HSS 7,000…that is roughly the number of surgeries that Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York has to make up. Fortunately, Dr. Bryan T. Kelly, Surgeon-in-Chief and Medical Director at HSS, has a thoughtful plan and a stellar team. Dr. Kelly: …

Live updates: Trump terminates U.S. relationship with WHO, claiming it misled world about coronavirus

May 29, 2020 / By Miriam Berger, Abigail Hauslohner, Brittany Shammas, Samantha Pell, Michael Brice-Saddler and Colby Itkowitz During remarks delivered in the Rose Garden on Friday, President Trump leveled an extraordinary broadside at the Chinese government and attacked the World Health Organization. Trump said WHO was effectively controlled by Beijing and accused it of misleading the world about the coronavirus at the …

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