COVID-19
How parents feel when their child’s operation is delayed – Their experience during the pandemic
By Alpesh Kothari, John Jeffery, Rachel Buckingham, Andrew Wainwright and Tim Th...
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Changing attitudes towards the management of surgical smoke
By Daniel S Hill, Joseph P V Natale, Anthony J Paluch and Jonathan Keenan
Caring for patients awaiting orthopaedic surgery
By Bibhas Roy
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the delivery of medical education; the experience at a National Orthopaedic Hospital
By Martin S Davey, J Tristan Cassidy, Matthew G Davey, John M O’Byrne and James ...
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Orthopaedic surgeons as vaccinators: playing our part in the pandemic
By Pranai Buddhdev, Thomas Stringfellow, Albert Ngu, Hilary Bosman, Andy MacDowe...
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Open letter to members regarding the BOA Burnout Survey
This open letter to the BOA membership is to update you all on the progress of t...
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COVID-19 and me
The spring of 2020 was different. The gloom of a long drawn winter refused to go...
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Wellbeing and looking out for one another
The wellbeing of our members and wider colleagues is an important issue for the ...
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Helping one another out…
by a member of the BOA Executive
BODS/BOA Survey of impact of COVID-19 on UK orthopaedic practice and implications on restoration of elective services - Part 2
By Bhanu Mishra, BODS Collaborators and Bibhas Roy
COVID-19 second wave, avoid service and training dislocation
By Ahmed Fadulelmola, Rob Gregory, Catherine Molyneux, Gavin Gordon, Fiona Smith...
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COVID-19 and resuming elective paediatric orthopaedics in a London major trauma centre and a tertiary referral centre
By Gemma Green, Deborah M Eastwood, Aresh Hashemi-Nejad, Peter Calder, Sally Ten...
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BODS/BOA Survey of impact of COVID-19 on UK orthopaedic practice and implications on restoration of elective services
By Bhanu Mishra, Michael Shenouda, P. Julian Owen, BODS Collaborators and Bibhas...
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Yet Another Iceberg? The Hidden Potential Harm of Elective Orthopaedic Waiting Lists
By Paul Williams, David J Beard and Navin Verghese
UK Orthopaedic trainees covering medical COVID-19 wards and still meeting Joint Committee on Surgical Training trauma procedure guidelines: A successful multifaceted collaborative model
By David Ferguson, Rory Cuthbert, Edward Karam, Cameron Dott, Lilanthi Wickramar...
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Orthopaedic department staff stress in relation to COVID-19
By Katrina Bell, Niall Donaldson, Katherine Coyle and Amit Putti
The impact of orthopaedic service cutback during COVID-19 pandemic on geriatric hip fracture management in a public hospital
By Chi Kin Lo and Yiu Chung Wong
The Change in Practice in the Trauma and Orthopaedic Department in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and the Influences for the Post-COVID-19 Era of the National Health Service
By Morgan Bayley, Alex Goubran, Omer Salar, Andrew Toms and Jonathan Howell
Identifying Modifiable Risk factors for Significant Paediatric Orthopaedic Trauma
By Tim Gardner, Mike Reidy and Simon Barker
Changing perceptions during the COVID-19 pandemic peak in the UK
By Thomas Collins and Anand Pillai
Unmasking problems due to disposable FFP3 masks: Snapshot survey on FFP3 masks usage by frontline healthcare professionals during COVID-19 pandemic
By R Rammohan, Viju Varadarajan and Khitish Mohanty
Professor Tim Briggs CBE, National Director of Clinical Improvement for the NHS, on the opportunity to set new quality standards in healthcare
Interview with Professor Tim Briggs CBE by Sally Williams
Orthopaedic care during COVID-19: An overhaul of services in the West of Ireland
By McCabe P, Fitzgerald E, O’Neill B and Kelly J
The Trauma Assessment Unit: The COVID-19 experience from University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
By Sarah Henning, Matthew Weston, Darryl Ramoutar and The Coventry Trauma and Or...
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Virtual follow-up for first appointment after hip and knee arthroplasty surgery is acceptable during the COVID-19 pandemic but not for routine practice
By Tomos Richards and Khitish Mohanty
Trauma and Orthopaedic services during COVID-19 lockdown: The Stoke response to Coronavirus pandemic
By Kahlan Al Kaisi, Damian McClelland, Ian Dos Remedios, Maria Belen Carsi and A...
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Is our personal protective equipment (PPE) actually fit for purpose?
By Eilís Fitzgerald, Patrick McCabe and Eshwar Murthy
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected junior doctor training? A survey analysis
By Andrew P Dekker, D, Danielle M Lavender, David I Clark, Amol A Tambe
COVID-19: The personal and professional impact for fellows overseas during the pandemic
By William J Nash, Obi Nzeako and Aaron Saini
A response to: Commentary on Prone Position Plexopathy during the COVID-19 pandemic
by Dominic Power, Caroline Miller, Joel O’Sullivan and Tahseen Chaudhry
Consent for surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic
By A Davies, T Heaton, S Sabharwal, M Fertleman, M Dani and P Reilly
Is the combination of a femur fracture a COVID-19 in the over 65s as bad as we think?
By Alex Witek and Phil Sauvé
Orthopaedics in the developing world: ADAPTING to a new reality within the COVID-19 pandemic
By Cameron Anley, Marilize Burger, Nando Ferreira, Edward Fuzy, Rudolph G Venter...
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Charting the Progress – A summary of the BOA/BODS Survey
By Bob Handley and Lara Bryan
Management of Orthopaedic Trainees’ Roster During COVID-19: Lessons Learned
By Yasser F Aljabi, Kiran Divani and Pinak S Ray
COVID-19 Pandemic response of Trauma and Orthopaedic services – The journey of a NHS District General Hospital in West Midlands
By Chiranjit De, Vishal Paringe, Sujit Agarwal, Margaret Brooks and Pratap Harbh...
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Consent in the Post-COVID-19 Era
By Bertie Leigh
Arthroplasty Patients; Not-Forgotten During COVID-19
By J Manara, J Murray, S Eastaugh-Waring, A Porteous, J Webb and D Clark
From Elective Orthopaedic Centre to a COVID-19 Trauma Unit: Rapid transformation
By S Govilkar, C Dover, D Dass, J-H Rhind, E Ramhamadany, D Ford, R Potter, P Co...
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Reducing risk and cost in a crisis – are hip check radiographs a necessity? Utilising lessons learned from changes in working patterns during COVID-19
Andrew Jones, Harriet Lewis and Peter Kempshall
COVID-19: The Impact and Changes to Trauma Services in Cardiff
By KSS Dayananda, T Yasin, P Jemmett and RW Trickett
Our experience as Orthopaedic Registrars redeployed to the ITU emergency rota during the COVID-19 pandemic
By G Gonzi, R Gwyn, K Rooney, M Horner, K Roy, J Boktor, A Kumar and H Pullen
An Orthopaedic Response to Coronavirus
By Namal Perera
The Paediatric Trauma Burden of UK Lockdown – Early Results in the COVID-19 Era
By P Buddhdev, H Gille and Y Ibrahim
A commentary on Prone Position Plexopathy during the COVID-19 pandemic
by Tom Quick and Hazel Brown
An audit of the delivery of paediatric orthopaedic services at the Bristol Royal Children’s Hospital in response to the British Orthopaedic Association Standards for Trauma (BOAST) COVID-19 guidance
By James Berwin, Matthew Singh, Charlotte Carpenter, Thomas Knapper, Sebastien C...
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The Provision of Trauma and Orthopaedic Care During COVID-19: The Coventry Approach
By Nicola Mackay, Faiz Shivji, Clare Langley, Michael David, Farhan Syed, Anna C...
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Evidence based suggestions for the return to elective orthopaedic surgery following the COVID-19 pandemic
By Sarkhell Radha and Irrum Afzal
The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on orthopaedic practice: perspectives from Asia-Pacific
By Andrew Chia Chen Chou, Ryuichiro Akagi, Joe Chih-Hao Chiu, Hyuk-Soo Han and D...
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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on hip fracture care
By John T Williams and Ajeet Kumar
The power of the pack, an ode to the trauma meeting throughout the coronavirus pandemic
By Hannah Louise Morley
Proning in COVID-19; What, Why, How? A Brief for Orthopaedic Surgeons
By James Houston, David Smith, Anh Nguyen, Michael Puntis
Children’s Health Ireland and the COVID-19 Catalyst: Reconfiguration of a Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery Department in the Current Crisis
By E Murphy, M O’Sullivan, P O’Toole, P Kelly, J Noel, J Kennedy, P Kiely, A Mol...
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A letter in response to: COVID-19 causes a SHiFT in the sands for proximal femoral fracture management? A plea for caution
By Peter M Lewis, Miriam Day, Lisa A Williams, Laura Lougher, Glenn J Clewer and...
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A response to the letter by Lewis et al. from the authors of: COVID-19 causes a SHiFT in the sands for proximal femoral fracture management?
By Michael Cronin, Mark Mullins, Praveen Pathmanaban, Paul Williams and Matthew ...
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Keeping the lights on: Maintaining a multidisciplinary diabetic foot service in the face of COVID-19
By Sarah Johnson-Lynn and Paul Mackenney
Coronavirus (COVID-19): My experience of testing positive
By Kathryn S S Dayananda
Stories from the coronavirus frontline – Repurposing an orthopaedic centre into a COVID-19 ITU
Interview with Mr Vipul Patel by Sally Williams
COVID-19 causes a SHiFT in the sands for proximal femoral fracture management?
By Michael Cronin, Mark Mullins, Praveen Pathmanaban, Paul Williams and Matthew ...
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‘Distant Learning’: A Glimpse into the Future and Beyond?
By Ossama Al-Obaedi and Paddy Subramani
The Surge in Tele-Orthopaedics in the Setting of COVID-19
By Moloney DP, Feeley I, Hughes AJ, Clesham K, Kiernan C and Niall D
The Times They Are a-Changing
By Hannah Hughes, Frank Lyons and Keith Synnott
COVID-19: The Trainee's Perspective
By Ignatius Liew
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in the time of COVID-19
by Jowan Penn-Barwell
Diary of a redeployed ST trainee
Name and Trust withheld to protect patient identity
The impact of a global pandemic on orthopaedic services: The collaborative approach in a UK major trauma centre
By Oliver Pearce, Daniel Yeomans and Michael Kelly
COVID-19: Can Orthopaedic Surgeons Really Work From Home?
By Nick Aresti and Bertie Leigh
Orthopaedics in a resource-poor environment: A personal view
By Fergal Monsell
Orthopaedic social distancing and manpower management throughout COVID-19
By Campbell M, Hughes AJ, Daly B, Hanahoe A, Moloney DP, Sheehan E and Merghani ...
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Dropping the anchor in the COVID-19 storm
By Dr Louise May Quarmby