by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. In the largest ever prospective study on cardiac outcomes after orthopedic surgery, researchers from multiple centers around the globe have determined that sometimes fatal myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS) events are quite common after orthopedic surgery. Their work, “Association Between Myocardial Injury and Cardiovascular Outcomes of Orthopaedic Surgery,” appears …