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At the Sports Medicine Fellows Forum, Wesley P. Phipatanakul, MD (Loma Linda, CA), demonstrates key exposure techniques for shoulder arthroplasty, emphasizing soft-tissue releases, glenoid visualization, and reproducible surgical steps to optimize implant positioning.

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Exposure Pearls in Shoulder Arthroplasty Surgery

OrthoPedia: Exposure Pearls in Shoulder Arthroplasty Surgery

The Arthrex ElbowLOC® positioner is a modular, upper extremity positioner that gives the surgeon the choice of supine, lateral, or supine-suspended positioning for elbow surgery, as well as a wrist traction device for wrist and hand arthroscopy. The ElbowLOC positioner is easy to use and set up, and housed in a space-saving single autoclavable tray.

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Gautam Yagnik, MD (Miami, FL), demonstrates an arthroscopic Bankart repair using the Knotless 1.8 FiberTak® system, highlighting advanced instrumentation including the pivot guide, flexible fluted drill, and PassPort Button™ cannula with auxiliary lumen. He outlines key steps for labral and capsular release, precise anchor placement along the glenoid rim, and efficient suture management to achieve a reproducible, anatomic repair. The technique emphasizes controlled capsular shift and restoration of the anterior bumper to enhance joint stability using knotless fixation technology.

Arthroscopic Bankart Repair Using the Knotless 1.8 FiberTak® System With Pivot Guide

Speaker  My name is Gautham Yagnik and I'm here from Miami, Florida today to demonstrate an arthroscopic bankart repair using our Knotless fiber tack system. Today we're going to highlight some unique instrumentation that's going to help us with this procedure. First is the Pivot Guide, which is a guide that blends both a straight and curved guide into one guide. The advantage to this guide, it has a nice straight shaft that allows you to get down even a small, low profile five millimeter cannula, but it's got a curve at the end, a seven degree curve that allows you to access even the most difficult aspects of the glenoid. The second item is our flexible fluted drill, and the third item is our passport with the auxiliary lumen. So we have a left shoulder in the lateral decubitus position. And we're viewing from the posterior portal. We've established our single portal just above the subscap with our passport cannula with the auxiliary lumen. We have liberated the labrum here, both anteriorly and anterior inferiorly. Initially, I use a traditional bank card elevator, but at this stage I like to bring in the I 90. It's perfectly shaped for this part of the procedure, and it'll allow me here to continue to release not only the labrum, but the capsular tissue that's adhered to the glenoid neck. The other area where I'll use the Apollo is right here along the rim, just to help me better visualize exactly where the rim of the glenoid is. And this will help for anchor placement. And this is our final prep. We've prepped our glenoid. We've prepped our Capsulolabral complex. Speaker  We're going to introduce the pivot guide into the shoulder. You can see it has this little lip at the end, which allows us to place the guide right on the edge of the glenoid, and it has a 1.5mm offset. So it allows a very reproducible placement of the anchor on the glenoid face. So I'll go ahead and put this down at the 530 position and I'll hook the lip on the edge of the glenoid, and then we'll bring our flexible fluted drill and place our first anchor. The advantage of the flexible fluted drill is that it clears some of the bone debris, and it makes anchor placement even easier. Place our first anchor. Remove the inserter and then I'll bring my guide out. So we have a very nice placement just on the face of the glenoid. We're now going to use our nano retriever through our auxiliary lumen. And we're going to go and we're going to retrieve our shuttle sutures. So we've brought our shuttle sutures out through the auxiliary lumen for suture management. We're going to bring our repair suture that has been loaded on our labrum scorpion down through our passport cannula. Now we're going to be able to get a really nice bite of tissue using this device Not just through the labrum, but through the capsule itself. So you can go ahead and pull that through the capsule label complex here. And you see, we have a nice, real healthy bite of tissue right at that inferior aspect of the answer band of the glenohumeral ligament. So at this point in the procedure, we're going to go ahead now and retrieve the loop out of our main cannula here. Speaker  We're going to go ahead and convert our anchor in a standard fashion. So right when we get down to this part I'll bring in a grasper or kingfisher. In this case we're using a pointed grasper. And the other advantage of this knotless tangible device is I'm able to go ahead and reduce the tissue exactly where I want it on the glenoid. We can sometimes even shift the head slightly posteriorly, and then we can go ahead and finish tensioning our anchor. And that allows us to not only repair the labrum, but to shift the capsule and really reduce the whole complex to the glenoid. And you can see how we get a really nice repair at this point. We have our repair suture out our auxiliary lumen. So it's not getting in the way. And I like to leave this here. So that way I can go back and retension this. After we place our next anchor, we're bringing in our pivot guide again. You can see the lip here. Once again, I'm going to kind of grab the rim of the glenoid with that lip. I'm going to angle the shaft. And the nice thing about this guide is it's stouter than a traditional guide. So it allows me to leverage just a little bit up on the head so I can really get up on the glenoid face there. So go ahead and give it a little tap on the back of the guide to seat it down. Bring our flexible fluted drill. Speaker  The guide has a nice slot here to allow us to see our anchor coming down through the guide and being placed into the bone. It's also vented on the side which helps clear the bone. So now we're going to just repeat the same steps that we did before. So at this point we're going to go down again and use our grasper to help reduce our tissue. So it's not just our anchor doing the work. We're actually going to be able to reduce and push our tissue exactly where we want it on the glenoid. And then we're going to go ahead and tension our second anchors getting a nice shift here. So we tension our anchor. Nice. Really nice. And then we can go back and tension our first anchor. And we can go ahead and get that last little bit of creep out of there. So that's perfect. So we've placed our final anchor here and we're about to do our final tensioning. So once again I'll I'll help to reduce my tissue. Take some tension here off the anchor and we'll go ahead to our final tensioning. And we're really able to kind of reduce that labrum and that whole capsule and shift everything to, to really get a nice anatomic repair of our glenoid and a really nice capsular shift. Here's our final tensioning here. We can kind of get a little bit more by putting our cutter down. You can see we get a really, really nice repair with a really robust capsular shift. I think it's really important, particularly for a patient that's very unstable.

Arthroscopic Bankart Repair Using the Knotless 1.8 FiberTak® System With Pivot Guide

The Mini Fragment System is designed to aid in the reduction and fixation of small- and long-bone trauma injuries. The modular tray offers screw and plate options in 2.0 mm, 2.4 mm, and 2.7 mm variants. With a wide array of plates to fit a multitude of trauma needs, the Mini Fragment System is a keystone addition to the Arthrex Trauma portfolio.

Mini Fragment System Animation

Mini Fragment System Animation

The consolidated trays for the Univers Revers™ total shoulder system are designed to provide a cost-saving solution that preserves patient-specific optimization and enhanced operative workflow.

Univers Revers™ Total Shoulder System: Maintaining Global Patient Parameters With Fewer Trays

Speaker  Shoulder arthroplasty is evolving and so are we at Arthrex. We're giving surgeons a streamlined path to surgical excellence. Fewer trays with the same versatility you've come to expect. All to help you treat your patients better. The result? A dramatic reduction in O.R. waste and significant cost savings without compromising implant modularity or patient optimization. Our new consolidated system lets you perform a standard reverse case with just two trays and an augmented glenoid with only three trays, saving you space and streamlining your workflow, all while continuing to use the implants you're familiar with. Backed by over a decade of clinical data. Fewer trays. Same implant options. More efficiency.

Univers Revers™ Total Shoulder System: Maintaining Global Patient Parameters With Fewer Trays

Jonathan A. Godin, MD (Vail, CO), performs a segmental meniscal allograft transplantation (MAT) using the segmental meniscus procedure pack to treat a midbody meniscal defect. Dr. Godin also shares key tips and technical pearls for using the meniscus template included in the procedure pack to ensure optimal graft matching.

Segmental Meniscal Allograft Transplantation Using the Segmental Meniscus Procedure Pack

Speaker  This is John Golden from the Stomach Clinic in Vail, Colorado. We're going to go over the components that comprise the segmental M.a.t. procedure pack. There are many suture tape links with or without needles, with four distinct colors for the corresponding four quadrants of the graft. And then there are also associated mini suture tape links without needles that will go into the graft. In addition, there is a free needle with a nitinol loop, and one of the most unique aspects of this is the meniscus template for the meniscus template. This is made of the same material as that used for the passport, and you can see distinct radii of curvature throughout the graft template. Four different quadrants showing different radii of curvature that would fit most appropriately in the segmental meniscus defect. Another key feature is that you can trim this to size for the height of the meniscus. Lastly, you can pass a suture through this so that you have complete control of the template within the knee joint for easy placement and extraction. We're starting the prep on a segmental M80. This is a right knee, and we're working on a mid body segmental defect here. We've begun some of the prep with biters and the torpedo shaver. And just doing the finishing touches on that right now with the shaver first. And you can use a combination of different biters to finish your prep work. Speaker  Key here is going to be coming from your control departmental portal to finish to have the best angle to work around the tibial spines. So you can kind of see we're finishing getting an appropriate. You want to leave at least a millimeter of rim if you can. And then another key here is keeping the edges, the anterior and posterior edges as sharp as you can to maximize some of the surface area. And then you'll want to mimic the pattern on your allograft on the back table. As is commonplace, we have fenestrated the proximal MCL to help with our exposure for this procedure helps with a valgus force applied for your visualization. So I'm going to do is switch portals view from our lateral portal to see and measure our defect. Now with the SCR ruler. So we're getting our anterior to posterior dimension here which on this is about a 19 or so nice clean edges nice rim there to repair and have healing to that. You notice the cartilage in the specimen is quite good. The other thing that I'll point out is that we've got our approach for our inside out, a typical inside out. I tend to use a probe to mark the joint line, and I make a third of the incision above that, two thirds below. Speaker  Once we get through the subcutaneous tissue, we're identifying the Sartorius fascia here. And I've kind of come in line with that to retract the hamstrings. And then below that, we're going to have our layer of the capsule and the postero medial gastrocnemius. So there are obviously different dimensions here. The most important is going to be your anterior to posterior. In my opinion, you don't want to short that and have too much strain across the radial repair sites anteriorly and posteriorly. And so getting that is the most vital. You're going to have a size matched graft. And so but sometimes the width is going to be variable. And it doesn't matter as much if there's nothing you can do. If this is a little bit inset after you place the graft in. If it's a little if there's a little excess, if you want just for appearance, it can be trimmed. And then the last is going to be the height. And so that's where we'll use the template. And we can size that more appropriately, which then allows us to size the allograft on the back table before we put it in. Once you have your segmental defect prepped arthroscopically, you can go to the back table. What we've done here is removed a right medial meniscus allograft from the corresponding bone. And then we have the template. Speaker  And so you'll want to use the template to identify the corresponding radius of curvature that best fits the area that you'll be transplanting. And so you can see the shorter radius of curvature here all the way to the longest. And if we put this on the corresponding area that we would be transplanting for this patient. Zone two has the best fit whereas three. And certainly this fourth zone here don't match the radius of curvature as well. And then we have the sizing. And so we can again use that ruler that we used arthroscopically. And within that zone we'll be able to measure to the same length. In this case it measured a 19. So I'll go about a 20 to size the template. And then we can mark the template with a stay stitch and put it into the joint to make sure that the fit is perfect. One thing I would note here, I tried to get pretty right angles on my defect. If you have more of a lower angle than. I would cut that appropriately to try to match when it fits in the joint. And so now we have a 20 millimeter portion on the outer rim for our template here. And I'm going to put a tag stitch in this. Personally, I think the anterosuperior quadrant is the easiest to place. So what we've done is made a small about a millimeter trim in the anterior to posterior position. Speaker  And then we've cut the template at the top of our fourth marking. And the nice thing with this material is the durability and the ease with which you can go in and out. And then I pass this, this link again in it. And you can see that the, the material stands up to that quite easily. So here I'm going to check the anterior posterior position, which looks quite good front to back. And then this view here I'll be checking the height. If this were placed in like that. So in standard fashion, we've placed our mini tape links into the four quadrants Anterosuperior, Anteroinferior, Posterosuperior, and Posteroinferior. And you can see those there. In this case, we used a divider in the passport to help organize those. And then we will refer to those corresponding colors when we pass these links to help shuttle the graph to keep everything sorted out later in the case. Now we'll go to the back table to prep our allograft. So now we're on the back table. We have our template. And if you think of the three dimensions looking at it, the height was appropriate to this template. So that's what we're going to aim for on the allograft as was. Now that we've fine tuned it our A to p length, the width is something I'm keeping in mind. Speaker  And so anatomically This zone is where the segmental defect is. I'm going to come just a little bit anterior because it's a little thinner there, and I think more appropriately matches the size of our template in that zone. Now that we've got the appropriate size in all three dimensions, we'll pass all four of our links in corresponding fashion to the colors that we place them in our defect. So here's the final prepared allograft on the back table with our blue Anterosuperior black Anteroinferior white and blue Posterosuperior and white and black Posteroinferior links passed in luggage tag fashion. We'll now pass these of the corresponding colors in the knee. So now we're going to pass first our two posterior shuttle stitches to feed the posterior mini tape links that are in the graph that have been passed. And this will help pull the graft in. And I'm also going to push with a king fisher. So now what I'm going to do after we have it provisionally placed is Thai order in my opinion doesn't matter. I'm going to for this case do posterior first. So as you can see I'm tying the blue and black striped links together first. And then next we'll tie the anterior solid blue to solid black. So now we have our stability of the graft to the rim. Speaker  And then you can augment with all inside fiber stitch or inside out sutures and side to side fashion to stabilize the graft to the anterior native meniscus and the posterior. So now we're placing a 24 degree fiber stitch in the posterior aspect at the junction of the graft to native meniscus. So here is kind of the final product. You can see that we've added side to side anteriorly in this case with an all inside fiber stitch. This can also be done with an inside out, and this will nicely reduce the allograft to the anterior aspect of the native meniscus. We've done the same posteriorly to reduce the posterior aspect of the native meniscus to the allograft, and then we can cycle the knee gently there to check it. Post-operatively. What I'm currently doing is six weeks non-weight bearing on these. Similar to a meniscal allograft transplantation with a brace start PT immediately post op day one swelling minimization range of motion. Usually do 0 to 90 for two weeks, then advance as tolerated. Usually it's about a 1 to 2 week progression from non-weight bearing at week six. Goal would be about checking strength at three months, six months, then nine months if need be, with a 10% or less differential between the sides before return to sport.

Segmental Meniscal Allograft Transplantation Using the Segmental Meniscus Procedure Pack

At the Hand and Wrist Fellowship Forum, Daniel Koehler, MD (Dallas, TX), reviews indications, anatomy, portal placement, and technical pearls for carpometacarpal (CMC) and metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint arthroscopy, supported by case-based illustrations.

NanoNeedle™ Arthroscopy for Carpometacarpal (CMC) and Metacarpophalangeal (MCP) Joint Pathologies

OrthoPedia: NanoNeedle™ Arthroscopy for Carpometacarpal (CMC) and Metacarpophalangeal (MCP) Joint Pathologies

Donald Hohmann, MD (Dallas, TX), demonstrates the surgical technique for using an Arthrex bone void filler to augment the bone surrounding the lag screw within the Arthrex Trochanteric Nail System.

Technique Demonstration of the Arthrex Trochanteric Nail Biologic Augmentation System

Hello. My name is Doctor Donald Hohman from Dallas, Texas. And today I'm here to perform a surgical technique demonstration for Arthrex Trochanteric Nail Augmentation System. This system allows for a streamlined approach to deliver biologics to the femoral head in patients with poor bone quality during trochanteric nail implantation. The system is offered as a single use sterile kit and includes a 3.2mm delivery cannula, guide pin and three one cc syringes, and a female to female luer. The delivery cannula features a custom tip design of four slots, spaced equally to deliver biologics to the surrounding bone that the lag screw threads will contact. The cannula also features laser lines that correspond to all lag screw lengths for precise delivery of biologics. The kit also includes a 3.2mm guide pin that is longer than the current lag screw guide pin offerings to simplify the removal of the guide pin prior to inserting the delivery cannula. Finally, the three one cc syringes and female to female luer can be used to transfer the graft into a smaller size syringe and reduce the back pressure that can sometimes occur when dealing with larger syringe sizes with respect to biologic offerings. The system is designed to be compatible with any injectable graft material, but for the purpose of this demonstration, we will be using Quick-set calcium phosphate cement. Now let's walk through the steps to deliver biologics through the lag screw into the femoral head. Prior to beginning lag screw placement, it's important to use the 3.2mm pin offered in the augmentation kit to ensure you can grab and remove the pin once it comes time to replace it with the delivery cannula. If a shorter 3.2mm pin is used initially, it will need to be replaced with the longer pin. Following the initial ream at this junction, you can verify both your reaming depth with a simple measurement and both your lag screw length. I'm going to begin to ream. It is important to note during this step, if you perforate the femoral head, augmentation with cement should not be conducted due to the possibility for material migration into the joint space. You can also verify the femoral head has not been perforated by injecting a radiopaque dye through the delivery cannula prior to cement delivery. Now you can see we've created our pilot hole, and based on our measurements, we're going to use a 95mm lag screw. At this point we're going to begin placement of the lag screw. Now before fully setting the lag screw, it's important to note when planning to augment, you will want to stop advancing the lag screw about ten millimeters from your final placement or just past the metaphysis if you prefer going off an anatomic landmark. This will allow us to inject the biologic into the surrounding bone of the lag screw threads. So now we're about ten millimeters from our final location. You can see this longer guide pin protrudes from the handle, which allows us now to replace it with the delivery cannula. From this step, because we are using a 95mm lag screw, we're going to insert the delivery cannula until we reach the 95mm laser line on the cannula. This measurement tells you the appropriate injection depth with respect to the lag screw On our back table. We've already mixed the quickset and we're going to transfer the cement into the one CC syringes. Again, the purpose of this step is to minimize pressure associated with larger syringes. At this point you can also verify on fluoro the cannula is in the right location for delivery of the cement. By verifying all of the injection ports are past the tip of the lag screw. At this point, you can also adjust the depth of the delivery cannula if a different location is desired. Now that the cannula has been filled with the cement, we can use the inner trocar to deliver all of the cement. A couple fluoro images should be obtained as you are delivering the cement to verify the final location. If significant back pressure is felt when inserting the cement with the trocar, at that point no more cement is needed. Now that all of the cement has been delivered, we are going to advance our lag screw and the technique is complete.

Technique Demonstration of the Arthrex Trochanteric Nail Biologic Augmentation System

John Xerogeanes, MD (Atlanta, GA), performs an endoscopic quadriceps tendon defect closure using the QuadClose™ technique with 0.9 mm LoopLink™ SutureTape and a self-retrieving Scorpion™ suture passer.&nbsp;

Endoscopic Quadriceps Tendon Defect Closure Using the QuadClose™ Technique

Today we're going to introduce the suture tape loop link used for closing the defect in the quad tendon that you see after harvesting a quad tendon for ACL reconstruction. It can be used both open or endoscopically. It's a nine millimeter loop, the round circular needle on the end that you can cut off and also use with a scorpion needle. It can be used both in a running fashion or in an interrupted type suture fashion, whatever you deem is most appropriate. So now we're inside the knee endoscopically looking at where we harvested the quad tendon, you can see that there's a full thickness quad tendon harvest and you see a defect. You can see tendon on both sides. There's synovial tissue and articular cartilage. Down below you can see the VMO to the right side and over to the lateralis over here. So what we're going to do is close this. Now we close this because if you leave it open you're going to extravasate fluid when you're doing the surgery. Number one. Number two you can feel the defect and afterwards. And patients don't like that. And number three, if you put this together, you're going to get beautiful healing on the MRI, which you're not going to get if you don't put it together. Our plan is to use the suture tape loop link to do the closure. We'll put a luggage tag suture from here to here in the apex to pull this together. Then we're going to go and do a running suture just by alternating the scorpion we're going to come this direction upside down. Upside. Upside down. Upside. You'll see what I mean to pull this together nicely all the way down. This allows you to do this through a very small incision. And you get really good visualization that you wouldn't get if you're trying to look in a wound. We're going to use the suture tape loop link to close the defect in the quad tendon. We're going to do that endoscopically. So we don't need this nice curved needle here. So what we can do is hold it and cut this off. The beauty of the design here is that this is long. Let's say it gets frayed at the end. I can bring it here. Cut it again and you can do that multiple times. So this is very easy to load. Just take your scorpion, pop the tip of your scorpion through the loop, and then pull the loop on and we're ready to go. So it's just like this and you're ready to do the luggage tag. So here we have a full thickness defect. Even if this were partial thickness, a lot of times we close it just to avoid feeling the defect in a thinner person afterwards. So we want to put this first one at the apex. So you'll see I'll go down I'll catch this. Go over the top and see if we can pull this together. So we're going to get a bigger bite here about right here. And then pull this back. And so we pull that and you're nice and tight at the apex. And now we're going to put those two layers together. So now we're coming in with the scorpion again. Now I'm going to take the scorpion and turn it upside down. I'm going to go just distal to the other suture. You can see where it is. And then I'm going to pull this through and you'll see how it's going to make a nice mattress suture as we pull it through. Now we're going to reload the scorpion. We're going to come in again on this time. And we're going to take the Scorpion. Go underneath this area here, grab it and pull it towards you as you make sure you're getting a good bite and then pulling this underneath. And now watch how this comes together. When we pull it, you can see it's pretty nice. Perfect. And now we're going to come in and do the same thing and travel down. Now depending on the quality of tissue you don't necessarily need to put these at half centimeter intervals. You can go a centimeter apart and you're still going to get a really nice closure. We come in here, we go upside down. We come back through. And we're going to do the same thing to the other side. Now we're going to reach in again. Go up, pull through. And each time we do this, it's easier and easier to pull this together. So as when you're closing any long suture and you're using a technique like this, you got to make sure that you pay attention to where your suture is because you can easily lock it, which is not the end of the world, but you have to make sure that you want to do that. And you can see as we go farther down, it's easier and easier to close this. You can go a little bigger bite here and a little more distal. If you have a partial thickness closure, then it makes this part easier to do. And oftentimes we like to do that. So you can't feel the defect afterwards. So you can see the incision. And as we enter the wound you can see we have a really nice closure a watertight closure. Now you could still use the scorpion to do this, but because we're right in the wound, you can do the rest of this using the free needle and finish it quickly and be done. Because you can see right in the wound. We just took a free needle and then continued our running suture by throwing two more sutures. And if you pull on it, you see how it comes together perfectly. So now we're ready to close the distal end of the harvest site. One of the neat features of the suture tape loop link is that it's small. So we're going to tie a knot with this. We're going to be able to bury the knot. And we're not going to feel it like you would on a number two suture. So this is on a thin person or someone that doesn't have much fat. They're not going to feel this knot at all. So we take the scissors and we cut just one limb of this. Now for the final throw of the construct. We load the free needle, take a nice big bite of this tissue. This is really good tissue at the end. So it's a little bit difficult to pass. You got to be a little careful. And then you have two separate limbs. Now we pull this together and we can tie this off nicely for a water type closure. Again because it's so small you cannot feel this knot Afterwards and the not as you'll see it will bury right underneath. After we're done. And so you have a nice closure. Now you can cut your sutures and the knot is buried. So now we can look at the final closure. You can see it's a very nice closure for what was a big open wound. This is much easier if it's a partial thickness, but even on a big wound, this closes nicely. And there's really a low suture load and a low knot load. So you have several options here. One option is to close everything. But if you don't have time and you want to get going on your case, what we like to do is take the 4x4 and pack it. And then if there is any leakage, it's minimal and it's not going all over your case. Then at the end of the case, you take this out, you close it and you're able to go on to the next case.

Endoscopic Quadriceps Tendon Defect Closure Using the QuadClose™ Technique

The hip-length DiamondCut™ burrs feature a diamond-coated head optimized for precise control during resection of pincer and cam deformities associated with femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) surgery.

Hip DiamondCut™ Burr

Hip DiamondCut™ Burr

Thomas Youm, MD (New York, NY), performs a core decompression for avascular necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head using the AVN expandable reamer and AlloSync™ Pure demineralized bone matrix (DBM).&nbsp;

Core Decompression of the Femoral Head Using the AVN Expandable Reamer and AlloSync™ Pure DBM

We are here today to show core decompression of the femoral head for avascular necrosis. The idea behind core decompression is to prevent eventual total hip replacement. We describe a technique that allows for seamless delivery of biologics and bone support into the core decompression tract. These are some examples on imaging of avascular necrosis of the femoral head. We have an x ray AP left hip showing avascular necrosis of the femoral head. Also MRIs both T1 and T2 views of the AVN of the femoral head. The indication for core decompression is to not have any subchondral collapse. In the presence of a crescent sign. You can see the crescent sign on the MRI images on both T1 and T2. We are here at the back table to show you the instrumentation for the core decompression set. We have both reusable and disposable instruments. The disposable instruments include A24 guide pin, A50 reamer, expandable reamer which is torque limited, as well as the application guide for the biologics. For the reusable guides, we have the drill guide with a handle drill guide insert, as well as a t-handle with a torque limiter. Critical part of core decompression is consideration of biologics. These are the biologics that I use. We have the Arthrex, BMA, vortex threaded needle Allison Pure. We have the Kwikset cement. What we do is with the BMA needle draw the bone marrow aspirate, mix it with the Allison Pure to fill the cavity of our core decompression to allow for healing. The quickset is then used to backfill to allow for to prevent leakage of the BMA. This specimen has been prepared with a flush fit cannula inside the joint. We're focusing on the open technique, but we will show arthroscopic pictures of the femoral head in preparation for our technique. I draw my landmarks. We see here is the ASIS with the iliac crest. I draw the inner and outer tables. I'm drawing the anterior femur, posterior femur and the tip, the greater trochanter. I use the Arthrex vortex needle to get my bone marrow concentrate. I do this early in my case so that the bone marrow concentrate is ready to be mixed with the allicin pure to share a pearl that I use to get my targeting and keep the incision small. I lay a guidewire right on top that you can use a 2.4 guidewire from the set. And I want to get my angle. If you can take a c-arm shot here. Another one? Another one. Right. And most lesions are anterior superior. So we'll mimic that in our demonstration today. We are going to draw a line right over the guidewire towards the femur. And that will give us an idea where we're going to start our incision. Next thing I'm going to do to see our starting point is I'm going to poke the guidewire or guide pin right on the femur if you can take a shot there. And another shot there to see on our starting point. So I like my starting point here. I'm also seeing the posterior aspect of the femur where we're going to start a little bit posterior on our incision. I can feel anteriorly, so I know I'm in a good spot. This is where I will center my incision. This will be my incision for our core decompression. So I have my drill guide right on the lateral cortex. And I'm bringing my guide pin right inside. Let's have a shot here. We have our guide pin in appropriate position. As you know, most femoral AVN lesions are anterior superior. You can see we're somewhat superior to the central portion of the femoral head. Now that we have our guide pin in appropriate position on the AP short of the articular surfaces, we're going to check a lateral view accurate targeting of our guide pin into the AVN lesion which is typically anther superior, is critical for this case, with multiple fine adjustments, we see on the lateral view of the hip that our guide pin is somewhat anterior from the center point, which is exactly where we want. Now that the pin is in good position, we are going to take out the drill sleeve and put the cannulated five millimeter reamer over the drill. As we get to the subchondral bone, the bone will feel stronger and more sclerotic. Shot, please. And it's important to make sure you're not engaging the guide pin in the reamer so as to not advance that guide. Pin through the cartilage. Shop, please. Shop, please. Right there. At this point, we're going to advance the stepped five millimeter, five millimeter drill sleeve using our slotted slap hammer. Shot there. Okay. So here we see that the step collar is flush with the cortex. And at this point the sleeve is appropriately inserted. So at this point we will take out the reamer first and then the guide pin. So this is the torque limiting expandable reamer just to show you how it works. This black knob here is to expand it from 6 to 18mm. So to prevent premature deployment of the blades inside the the bone, we hold it right behind the black knob. No pressure from posteriorly on the t-handle and we insert. And we'll confirm with C-arm to make sure that we're at the appropriate position and depth. It's important to note when you use this reamer and start expanding, go up one notch at a time. Have at least a few turns, and if you're feeling a lot of chatter, don't get. Don't prematurely advance too quickly. So here I'm at six millimetres. Turning over to nine. And this is at maximum expansion shot there please. One more time. Good. All right. So now that we're at 18mm, we want to check on the lateral view, which we did to confirm appropriate position. And here what I'm going to do now is I'm going to withdraw this back and still turn to get chatter so that we can create more decompression of that avian lesion. If you can take a calm shot, please. So as we pull this back and keep turning at 18mm, we're creating a larger cavity for filling of our allosyncarpia with bone marrow concentrate. Take a shot, please. And you can hear the chatter shot again please. Good. All right. So at this point I'm going to bring our reamer back down to six and we'll pull this out shot there. At this point with the reamer out, it's a good idea to flush out any necrotic bone and tissue. We use the applicator from our disposable set to insert. Take a shot, please. Calm. One more. Good. I'll remove the inserter at this point. Insert syringe with saline shot again, please. And we'll just flush it out under some pressure. Okay, so this is our 250 millimeter nanoscope needle. We're going to take a look inside our decompression tract and our tunnel to see if we got to the sclerotic bone and necrotic bone. Obviously in this cadaver model you won't see the necrotic bone, but you can see very clearly a very good resolution of the intraosseous space. At this point, we have five CCS of our Allison Pure with five CCS of bone marrow concentrate. I will mix this in a 1 to 1 ratio. I also have the quick set here ready to go. Once we are done with our Allison Pure mixture, we get the quick set ready for backfill preparation. We have our biologics applicator, which we're going to insert into our drill sleeve and we will confirm appropriate depth. I like to be right at the entry point of the cavity. Take a shot please. Good. Take a shot, please. So, right at the entry point of the cavity. I've taken my five cc slurry of bone marrow concentrate and allicin pure and transferred to one cc syringes, which we have here. These will secure themselves to our applicator, and we'll start injecting in the beginning. There's not much resistance because we're just filling our applicator. But once we remove once we insert our plunger, we'll start to see this mixture go into our decompression tract. So I recommend using the plunger slowly so as not to penetrate the articular surfaces in case there's any chondral fissuring. Yeah. X ray please. X ray please. Yeah. You can see filling. I'm getting a little bit of resistance here. I'm going to pull back our applicator x ray please. X ray please. All right. So we got nice filling there. Now what I'll do is just for the backfill for the quick set I'm going to retract our applicator back further x ray please. Right about that level. Okay. Now we have our quick set that's been transferred to a syringe for easy application. I'm going to insert that right into our applicator. And we're going to inject that in. All right good. We'll finish that in. And then we're putting the plunger in here to complete the insertion of the quick set and chat there. Good. Once we're in we'll take this out and we'll take our whole system out at this point. Shot again. Very good. So at this point the surgery is complete. We will have post-op images that will show on x ray. Our decompression tract filled with Kwikset as well as the bone marrow concentrate with Allison Pure, have an x ray view here. We'll also have an MRI view of the decompression showing filling over time. I also have a bilateral hip MRI where a patient has AVN on both hips. On the right hip, you can see there's still bone marrow edema from the AVN on the left hip. This MRI was done over a year after surgery. You can see complete bone healing and no evidence of any necrosis on both AP coronal as well as axial views. As you can see, the core decompression surgery we performed today was done under a minimally invasive technique with about a two centimeter incision. Appreciate you taking the time to watch our video today. Thank you.

Core Decompression of the Femoral Head Using the AVN Expandable Reamer and AlloSync™ Pure DBM

Erik Kubiak, MD (Las Vegas, NV), presents the Arthrex extra-articular distal humerus plate for distal ⅓ shaft fracture fixation. The Arthrex Elbow Plating System provides a comprehensive solution for distal humerus and olecranon fracture fixation, using next-generation KreuLock™ locking compression screws. Dr. Kubiak has positioned the patient using the ElbowLOC® arm positioning system.

Distal Humerus Shaft Fracture Fixation Using the Extra-Articular Plate From the Arthrex Elbow Plating System

So Eric Kubiak from Las Vegas, Nevada. Today we're going to demonstrate application of the extra articular humerus plate through a posterior approach to humerus. We'll go through some anatomy, show you the salient structure at risk, which is the radial nerve, and then go through plate length options. My preference is to do these operations without the tourniquet, for the reason being that the tourniquet tends to shorten the surgical field and puts the radial nerve, which is the structure, at risk, potentially tethered and stuck under the plate. So of the plates this is the shortest. This is the longest. Operating holes increase by two holes as we escalate the plate sizes. You can see for this specimen this person the longest plate would be too long. These plates are differentiated from the conventional periarticular distal humerus plates in that they're much thicker. They're A35 plate in stiffness. Whereas the conventional periarticular plates are thinner and less stiff. These are really meant to treat those hybrid fractures, which are a combination of a shaft meta diaphyseal injury, the distal humerus. I tend to use these plates more than I use the periarticular plates. I tend to fix most of these with a longer, stouter lateral plate and then the appropriate medial plate. The design concept here is that the shaft plate and the periarticular plate have very similar distal screw pattern. To address the periarticular fracture. This distal screw cluster can either use the three five screws or two seven screws. I tend to treat most of these fractures with a stout lateral plate and appropriate periarticular medial plate as necessary. The only difference in the distal screw pattern between the periarticular plate and the extra articular distal humerus plate is the addition of this cross tab, which would allow screw across the trochlea. Important features of a direct posterior approach to the humerus would be positioning. So most of the patients we're doing lateral over an arm holder. Other people do them prone over a similar arm holder with the elbow to be extended or flexed. The incision is centered over the center of the triceps for an extra articular injury or an extra articular humeral shaft fracture. I often don't need to develop the medial side of this approach. If you do not develop the medial side, I would say you have to be very careful of the ulnar nerve or trapping the ulnar nerve, which is just on the other side of the humerus. So retractor is placed under the triceps, can catch the ulnar nerve and inadvertently injure it when the patient triceps is immobilized out of the way. The easiest way to do this is in skin incision down on the fascia over the triceps. Open the triceps fascia, and then elevate the triceps off this overlying fascia. That'll allow you to find the cutaneous branch of the radial nerve, which then will take you to the radial nerve. When you're actually doing the live dissection, the vessels that travel with the radial nerve can be quite bloody. And so we use a bipolar cautery because you're cauterizing right around the nerve. And it's easier than using the pickups in the cautery. Electrocautery. The other thing I would say is, when you're doing this approach and you're mobilizing the radial nerve, make sure you get underneath of it and make sure you can get underneath of it proximally and distally. Most of the time when I'm doing this procedure, I'm demonstrating it. We go up all the way to the deltoid and, and come to the confluence of the two heads of the triceps and the deltoid. That kind of marks the top of this incision for me. Once I'm here, then I can track back. If you're having trouble finding the radial nerve, go to a place that's safe distally. Work proximally. Go to a safe place proximally. Work distally and find the nerve between the two approaches. That's a really easy way to get at it without getting in too much trouble. When you need to do that, most of the time it's because this is a fracture that's gone on to nonunion, and you're picking the nerve out of the nonunion ball. So in that circumstance, just come somewhere where you're safe proximately somewhere you're safe distally, and work until you find the radial nerve in between the two. One of the important points of humerus fractures is the humerus. Has some curve to it in the anterior posterior plane, or in the coronal plane, it has a radius of curvature. These plates also have a radius of curvature in that coronal plane. This particular patient has an extra kind of kink in the distal third of the humerus, where if this was broken, we'd probably just take the kink away and reduce it. Take this. But in this circumstance, we had to put a little bit of a bend in the plate to facilitate her anatomy. Again, the plate's going to come up under the radial nerve. Be fitted to the distal humerus and the shaft of the humerus. Be really careful of the radial nerve. Try not to wind it up in the drill bits, screws, etc. and then in the dictation we always dictate where the nerve passed over the plate. So in this circumstance we would say the nerve passed over the first proximal hole. Again true three five screws. So 2.5mm drill bit. By cortical. This should always in most human beings is going to be 26 to 28. So this is measuring 26. Titanium is really nice. Now the one thing I would say is in this circumstance where the pulling the apex into position tended to lift the one end of the plate or the other off. I would fix to the metastasis first, because that's going to be my dominant thing that I'm worried about. Fix the metastasis first and then draw the bone to the plate. Calibrated drill guide has two marks on the drill bit. The first mark is for the short side so up to 50mm. So as you can imagine we're at 15 and there's 15mm of drill bit extended exposed. If you come up to the second line drilling across the trochlea, the double mark starts at 55, 60, 65, 70. Drilling towards the coronoid. If you're really in the coronoid can be up to 30. Most of the time down here it's going to be 16 something like that. So we're at 26 here. So 2627. My preference is pin the plate. Conventional compression screws. And then if if locking screws or fixed angle screws are indicated A, i.e. secondary to bone quality. Then I would go to the fixed angle screws or locking screws. After I'd already put the cortical screws in place, you can see how the plate pulls really nice down the bone appropriate to the bone. Once that plate's appropriate to the bone. The other cortical screw. And you've got this like really, really perfect plate contour plate sitting against the humerus. Appropriate. So this would be the intermediate step of this procedure. You have the plate pinned to the bone fracture reduced plate pinned to the bone. And then the cortical screws pulling the bone plate construct so that it's appropriately fit. Now when you look from the lateral sort of at the lateral aspect of the humerus, you can see this really nice plate contour fitting the humerus appropriately address, you know, appropriate to the bow of the humerus and a really nice distal fit to the distal humerus, which is going to be important because there's not a lot of soft tissue on the and the distal aspect the lateral humerus. If you feel it, and people will feel that plate pretty easily. So the number one reason to take these plates out is that distal lateral prominence. And again that's why you got to be a little careful about the radial nerve because you'll be pulling these things out. So so we're here we're going to demonstrate the three five distal lock. So 2.5mm drill 2.5mm calibrated cannula. Same concept with the single mark marks the depth. When I place this screw, I don't try to go by cortical because I know it's going right for the coronoid and the radial head. So here we're. About 22 3.5mm locking screw. With the. Limiting torque limiting attachment which if you're going to place locking screws with power. I would always recommend using the torque limiter, and then you can come back and address them by hand at the end to make yourself feel better, but I would always use a torque limiter with power. You know, when we first pull the plate down, often we're using we're measuring a screw from a plate that's not on the bone. For me, I'm going to pull it down and don't change these screws, which are obviously long on the lateral. The distal screws obviously long. I would place the distal locking screw first before changing this screw and shortening it. If you don't do that then the plate can pull off the bone. You can lose the reduction. The goal in my life is to obtain the reduction, then maintain that reduction until the patient's healed. And nowhere along those lines sort of lose the reduction. So I don't want to lose reduction once I've sort of gotten the fixation started. So this screw will be shortened after the definitive locking screws are placed. Final plate bone construct demonstrating a typical pattern of fixation with multiple screws placed into the Capitellum them these screws for me. Fixed angle variable angle screws are helpful because I like divergent or convergent screws to to really maximize fixation in this distal metaphyseal bone. The distal fragment will also have a minimum of a cortical screw and a fixed angle screw to really lock in that lateral column. Again, we'll go through the typical spiral fracture of the distal humerus. The proximal shaft fragment needs a minimum of three points of fixation. That's going to be, in most intents and purposes, a cortical screw to help hold the plate bone construct where it needs, and then backed up by locking screws or fixed angle screws. At a minimum, I would say of two, but I like three is kind of the number that I'm going to shoot for. And again, the radial nerve crossing over the top of the plate and making sure that all the additional wires are put in, all that stuff's removed.

Distal Humerus Shaft Fracture Fixation Using the Extra-Articular Plate From the Arthrex Elbow Plating System

John Zvijac, MD (Miami, FL), demonstrates the use of the NanoNeedle™ scope 2.0 and the PassPort Button™ cannula with auxiliary lumen for Nano shoulder arthroscopy labral repairs.

Labral Repair Using the NanoNeedle™ Scope 2.0 and the PassPort Button™ Cannula With Auxiliary Lumen

Speaker  Hi, I'm John from Miami, Florida, and today we're showcasing a label repair technique using the Nanoneedle scope 2.0 and the accessory Lumen Passport. This setup allows for ultra minimally invasive access and enhanced maneuverability. We've already established our portals, and the accessory Lumen Passport is positioned to facilitate suture management and instrument passage. You'll see how this design improves efficiency and flexibility during the repair. Here is what the accessory Lumen Passport looks like. We have a center hole for instrumentation, and then there is an accessory lumen, which allows for passage of a multitude of micro instruments for suture management. Here we see the nanoneedle scope in the posterior shoulder portal and the accessory passport lumen anteriorly in a rotator cuff interval. A little pro tip the accessory portal. If you can leave this inferiorly or posteriorly, it makes it a little bit easier for suture management. It's not that big of a deal. You can always put it in any position, but that's a little pro tip to help as you're moving this along. You can see the soft tissue bankart lesion that's occurred. This is the labrum all the way down. And we're well past the 6:00 position to allow for bringing the capsule both superiorly and laterally onto the articular surface. The labrum often falls not only medially but inferiorly while you're doing these type of surgeries. Speaker  So it's important to free all of this up for proper mobilization and tensioning. We'll be repairing this labral tear with the 1.8mm knotless fiber tack anchor. This is being done through the central lumen of our passport. And now we're going to pass the suture retriever through the accessory portal in our passport. You can see it coming through, and we can easily pass our stitch with the use of a scorpion through our central portal. And now we're going to just easily shuttle our loop stitch through our center portal. And now we're ready for shuttling a repair stitch. Keeping very nice suture management, preventing entanglement of the stitches intra articularly. We're going to take this stitch out through our center hole to allow for final cutting of the stitch. Here we're using the flush cutter, and we can just bring this down to central portal. And we can cut our stitch flush. And we're ready for the next stitch. The repair is completed with precise suture placement and minimal disruption to the surrounding tissue. The accessory Lumen Passport enhances suture management and expands our instrument options for suture passing during a label repair. Combined with the Nanoneedle scope 2.0, we're moving closer to an ideal solution for the ultra minimally invasive arthroscopy.

Labral Repair Using the NanoNeedle™ Scope 2.0 and the PassPort Button™ Cannula With Auxiliary Lumen

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Lee Hunter, MD (Columbia, TN), provides an overview of the components of the ElbowLOC® arm positioning system and demonstrates the assembly and patient positioning in the supine suspended position. This comprehensive arm positioner supports elbow positioning in supine, lateral, and suspended supine positioning, and wrist traction for wrist arthroscopy.

Supine Suspended Elbow Positioning With the ElbowLOC® Arm Positioner

My name is Lee Hunter. I'm an upper extremity orthopedic surgeon with Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance. And today we're going to take a look at the Arthrex elbow lock arm positioning system. This system is actually a 4 in 1 positioning system. The components of the system include the base support, which is what all the various assemblies are built off. It has a wrist support component. It has a supine arm positioner. It has a humeral support as well as a humeral collet. It has a distraction nut, a lateral position or support. It has a reducer distractor attachment. It has a traction bar. The wrist tower. The wrist tower, traction gauge and the wrist tower bar capture. The undersurface of the lid also displays the three primary assemblies of the various positioning systems. The system also comes with a disposable sterile field kits, which contain foam blocks that slide on the various components as well as a self-adherent wrap. The system also comes with a double armed finger traps for the wrist tower components, and they come in the various sizes small, medium, large and extra large. This is a supine, suspended positioner assembly. It starts with a base support which is applied just cephalad to the patient's shoulder. This is a supine positioner component and in this application it's rotated such that this locking pin is seated vertically. Then the supine positioner is loaded into the base support locked into position. Next, the wrist support component is applied over the distal arm of the supine positioner. The patient's hand is placed around the wrist support and stabilized with the self-adhering wrap contained within the field kits. This is the basic working position for supine suspended arthroscopy, with the elbow resting at a 90 degree angle. Elbow flexion extension angle is adjusted by raising and lowering the height of the supine position, by adjusting the locking knob on the interface of the base support.

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