MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @signaturedoc
Type: #MedEd #Advocacy
Specialty: #OrthopedicSurgery #Ortho #Neurosurgery #Neurosurg
Topics: #Medicare #CMS #MedicareFFS #ElectiveSurgery #MedicareRegulation
Medicare Regulation #Tweetorial time!
Determining status for Medicare patient undergoing elective surgery.
CMS is eliminating the inpatient only list over the next 3 years and started 1-1-21 with all orthopedic and most spine surgeries. So how do you determine status? 1/
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @pierrerod
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Orthopedics #Ortho #ID #InfectiousDisease
Topics: #SepticArthritis #Gout #PseudoGout
Septic Arthritis = Infection of a joint
Predisposing RF:
- Advanced age 🧓
- Immunosuppression
- IV drug use 💉
- Recent joint surgery, trauma, injection or pre-existing disease
- Prosthetic joint
- Skin/soft tissue infection
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @Peds_Ortho
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Ortho #Peds #Pediatrics
Topics: #Soleus #GastrocSoleus #Diplegia #Quadraplegia #Gait #Stance
Why percutaneously lengthening the Achilles/gastrocsoleus in children with diplegia/quadriplegia is so harmful: a brief primer.
The soleus is, pound-for-pound, the most important muscle to keeping us upright in stance. Yes, that little muscle keeps us upright.
How?
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @DrCrellin
Type: #Publication
Specialty: #Ortho #Orthopedics
Topics: #Obesity #Knee #UnicompartmentalKneeArthroplasty #UKA
Over the🌑to announce my latest co-authored paper has been published in @KSSTA! Click the link below for the paper in full, or keep scrolling for the short summary😊#tweetorial #FOAMed [1/8]
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00167-020-06297-7.pdf