Hunter Firment is an Editorial Assistant at Healio, a platform that provides healthcare professionals with the latest medical news and information. Hunter covers a wide range of topics in the field of orthopedics, including surgical procedures, treatment options, and patient outcomes.
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Hunter Firment's articles focus predominantly on scientific and healthcare topics, particularly within the orthopedic trauma and medical advancements areas. The coverage is heavily data-driven, with a significant emphasis on citing data.
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By: Aaron J. Huser, Hunter Firment, Gina Brockenbrough
Key takeaways: Dynamic valgus of the ankle was corrected with a shortening of the distal tibia but tended to recur within 2 years.
By: Hunter Firment, Gina Brockenbrough
Key takeaways: Amniotic umbilical cord tissue was linked with improved patient-reported outcomes as an adjunctive therapy for meniscectomy.
By: Hunter Firment
Results presented at the Musculoskeletal Infection Society Annual Meeting showed suppression antibiotics may improve survival rates for patients with a prosthetic joint infection of the hip or knee with retained hardware. Marjorie Golden, MD, FACP, AAHIVS, associate professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, and colleagues retrospectively analyzed data from 71 patients with a
By: Casey Tingle, Hunter Firment
Results presented at the Musculoskeletal Infection Society Annual Meeting showed the 2018 International Consensus Meeting criteria may effectively identify periprosthetic joint infection in revision shoulder arthroplasty.
By: Hunter Firment, Gina Brockenbrough
Results presented at the Musculoskeletal Infection Society Annual Meeting showed dalbavancin may be an effective antibiotic for treatment of gram-positive periprosthetic joint infections.
By: Gina Brockenbrough, Hunter Firment
Results presented at the Musculoskeletal Infection Society Annual Meeting revealed 40 international Delphi consensus statements on wound closure and dressing management in total hip and knee arthroplasty.
By: Hunter Firment, Kristen Dowd
Results presented at the Musculoskeletal Infection Society Annual Meeting showed combined primary and extended oral antibiotics may predict lower treatment failure rates for periprosthetic joint infection after total knee arthroplasty.
By: Hunter Firment
Results presented here showed delays from admission to debridement, antibiotic and implant retention for periprosthetic joint infection after total knee arthroplasty may result in poor outcomes.“Timing from admission to [debridement, antibiotic and implant retention] DAIR greater than 48 hours was associated with an almost ninefold increase in reoperation for PJI and almost 48-fold
By: Hunter Firment
Published results showed both subacromial injections of platelet-rich plasma alone or combined with vitamin C may be effective treatment options for patients with partial-thickness rotator cuff tears.“However, contrary to expectations, the present study did not find a significant difference between the two groups,” Hamid Mirhosseini, MD, PhD, professor at Shahid Sadoughi University of
By: Carl A. Deirmengian, Hunter Firment, Gina Brockenbrough
Key takeaways: Results showed an unsupervised machine learning model may be able to classify synovial fluid samples by infection status.
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