Journal of Orthopedic Education

 Apert syndrome (acrocephalosyndactyly) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by craniosynostosis, syndactyly, and midfacial malformation.

 Keywords: Possible mechanism of injury and operative procedures are discussed.

Hip joint is naturally a very stable joint and tends to require a significant amount of force to dislocate. Dislocation of hips usually occur in young individuals. Traumatic hip dislocations are common in high-energy automobile accidents. The amount of energy, position of hip at the time of trauma and its morphology determines the type of dislocation, its direction and the associated fractures. These factors are to be taken into consideration while assessing the case of hip dislocation in emergency. Such patients require a standard trauma evaluation, a thorough musculoskeletal and neurological examination and detailed radiographic evaluation. Here we present a case of 40-year-old man who sustained posterior hip dislocation with posterior wall acetabular fracture with lipo-hemarthrosis. Urgent open reduction and internal fixation of the posterior acetabular wall was done with recon plate and screws were done. To our knowledge, such injuries occur less often in the literature with such findings. Possible mechanism of injury and operative procedures are discussed

Background: COVID-19 is a new corona virus that appeared in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and is responsible for the biggest pandemic of infectious illnesses in this century. These constraints, as well as the rising number of COVID- 19 cases, had a signifcant impact on the delivery of healthcare to patients in orthopaedics and trauma. Objective: To determine the number, their distribution and characteristics of patients visiting OPD, ER and IPD in a tertiary care private teaching hospital before and during Covid 19. Methods: This study was conducted in Department of Orthopaedic, Medical Superspecialty Hospital, Kolkata. Retrospective data [Pre Covid data] from March 2019 to 23rd March 2020 and Retrospective+ Prospective data [during Covid data] from 24th March 2020 to March 2021 visiting orthopedic department were collected. This study followed universal Sample size collection method for the entire duration of study periods. Results: Both the initial cases and follow up cases have declined signifcantly during covid compared to pre-covid-era. When means of the number of new patients and follow-up patients per month in the outpatient clinic during the pre-COVID and the COVID period were compared using the MannWhitney U-test, it was found to be highly statistically signifcant (p value = 0.0041 and 0.00006 respectively)