Theme: Orthopaedics. 

Participants: Professor Herwig Drobetz (orthopaedic trauma surgeon at Lismore Base Hospital), Dr Anthony Wilson (orthopaedics registrar at Lismore Base Hospital), Pramod Chandru, Caroline Tyers, Mariez Gorgi and Kim Van Vu. 

Discussion:
Combined Randomised and Observational Study of Surgery for Fractures in the Distal Radius in the Elderly (CROSSFIRE) Study Group, Lawson, A., Naylor, J. M., Buchbinder, R., Ivers, R., Balogh, Z. J., Smith, P., Xuan, W., Howard, K., Vafa, A., Perriman, D., Mittal, R., Yates, P., Rieger, B., Smith, G., Adie, S., Elkinson, I., Kim, W., Sungaran, J., Latendresse, K., … Harris, I. A. (2021). Surgical Plating vs Closed Reduction for Fractures in the Distal Radius in Older Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA surgery, 156(3), 229–237. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2020.5672.

Presenter: Mariez Gorgi - emergency medicine advanced trainee at Westmead Hospital.

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