Orthopaedic Knowledge (Orthopaedic Knowledge Update)

New knowledge to advance your clinical practice.

OKU 12 brings you a comprehensive synthesis of the latest clinical thinking and best practices across all orthopaedic specialty areas. Keep pace with the rapidly changing body of orthopaedic knowledge and clinical practice with OKU s objective, balanced coverage in easily accessible formats, including new on-demand, fully-searchable digital versions.

Backed by clinical research, informed by practical experience and rigorously edited by specialty thought leaders, OKU 12 is the most up-to-date resource available anywhere for delivering high-quality orthopaedic patient care today.

An essential resource at every level of orthopaedic specialization:

Daily practice enhance patient care with clinical guidelines and best practices supported by the latest evidence

Ongoing learning explore vast amounts of new knowledge and clinical thinking across all orthopaedic specialty areas

First-time board certification access information you need to know but won t find in most textbooks

Maintenance of Certification (MOC) prepare with confidence with objective, unbiased coverage of key topics and concepts

All-new content from the top minds in orthopaedics:

800 pages of new content

Person-centered care

Pain management

Traumatic bone loss

Orthopaedic infection

Vertebral compression fractures

High-tech genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics

Completely new chapters on Bone Grafting, Shoulder Arthritis, and Regulation Approval of Orthopaedic Products