INTRODUCTION: Surgical complications may be avoided by preoperative templating in trauma hemiarthroplasty. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Digital templates for the Stryker™ range of Thompson's prostheses were created and fifty trauma patients that had undergone cemented hemiarthroplasty were retrospectively templated by 2 blinded surgeons. RESULTS: Templating for prosthesis size was highly accurate with excellent Inter and intra-observer reproducibility. Sensitivity for identifying femoral canals too narrow for a Thompsons was 100%. CONCLUSIONS: Templating is a valuable tool and should be standard practice in trauma. We have demonstrated that it is possible to generate custom templates to allow accurate templating.
INTRODUCTION: Surgical complications may be avoided by preoperative templating in trauma hemiarthroplasty. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Digital templates for the Stryker™ range of Thompson's prostheses were created and fifty traumapatients that had undergone cemented hemiarthroplasty were retrospectively templated by 2 blinded surgeons. RESULTS: Templating for prosthesis size was highly accurate with excellent Inter and intra-observer reproducibility. Sensitivity for identifying femoral canals too narrow for a Thompsons was 100%. CONCLUSIONS: Templating is a valuable tool and should be standard practice in trauma. We have demonstrated that it is possible to generate custom templates to allow accurate templating.
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Hemiarthroplasty; Hip fracture; Neck of femur; Templating; Thompsons
Authors: Raghavendra Marappa-Ganeshan; Francis Sim; Sameh Sidhom; Gautam Chakrabarty; Hemant G Pandit; Bernard H van Duren Journal: Indian J Orthop Date: 2020-09-05 Impact factor: 1.251