Complications in Orthopaedics: Hand Surgery

The difference between an average surgeon and a master surgeon is often an ability to navigate and resolve surgical complications. Complications in Orthopaedics: Hand Surgery provides expert guidance and offers real solutions to improve patient outcomes, for both the trainee and the experienced surgeon. This brand-new volume in the Complications in Orthopaedics series from series editor Dr. Stephen R. Thompson, along with expert surgeons Drs. Micah K. Sinclair and Christopher Dy, focuses on how to recognize and avoid errors during hand surgery, with thorough coverage of preoperative errors, intraoperative issues, and postoperative complications.

• Helps you navigate a wide variety of inevitable difficult situations in hand surgery, whether errors in judgment, technical mistakes, or unavoidable outcomes
• Covers key topics such as patient safety, informed decision making, improved postoperative care, quality improvement, multidisciplinary collaboration, and more
• Contains 54 chapters covering everything from fingertip and nailbed injuries; nerve palsy (median, ulnar, radial); and neuromas and nerve tumors of the upper extremity, to hand arthritis; extensor tendon rupture; lunotriquetral ligament tear; and much more
• Features a full-color design with numerous photographs, radiographs, and illustrations
• Follows a templated, reader-friendly format throughout
• Includes introductory material on relevant anatomy and necessary background information
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish after the publication date

Stephen R. Thompson, MD, MEd, FRCSC is a sports medicine orthopaedic surgeon at Northern Light Orthopedics. He completed his medical school at the University of Sydney, Residency at University of Maryland and Fellowship at the Fowler-Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic in London, Ontario and then his second at the Oakville Sports Injury Clinic in Oakville, Ontario.

Dr. Thompson is a recognized expert in sports medicine. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the widely used and highly respected reference textbook DeLee and Drez’s Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. Dr. Thompson has spent a significant time studying medical education and standardized testing. He has applied this knowledge in his role as the Editor-in-Chief of Miller's Review of Orthopaedics.