A Quick Guide to Essential Orthopedics

As the name of the book itself suggests, this book intends to lay a conceptual, scientific, evidence-based firm basic foundation as well as advanced learning for a doctor who wishes to either start a career as an Orthopod or already pursuing it (MS/ DNB/ Senior Resident/ Registrar/Fellow/ Consultant) or has Orthopaedics as a part in his career (MBBS/ Paramedical) as a doctor or paramedical personnel. This book is a foundation study for Orthopaedics of MBBS students. It covers theory and the clinical aspects which a student pursuing his MBBS degree in an autonomous institute of national importance, i.e., AIIMS & AIIMS-like institutions of India, must know about and pass with excellent and concise knowledge of Orthopaedics. This book focuses on laying a sound foundation for beginners in Orthopaedics. This book shall be helpful as first read to lay a basic knowledge and foundation of Orthopaedics to Orthopaedics postgraduate trainees, senior residents, fellows, and attending consultants. The importance of Orthopaedics is more than ever now in MBBS as well as during NEET/NEXT. Many institutes and colleges are already conducting the Orthopaedics exams in MBBS as a separate, independent subject. Hence, there is an urgently emerging need for a textbook adherent to the recommended curriculum, and this book shall be more apt, appropriate, and detailed than any book available in the country. The book covers all the standard topics important for an undergraduate to learn and an intern to practice. It also provides an introduction to recent advances and evidence-based medicine. This book is a total package as a textbook for all the necessary information required for a successful undergraduate and an early postgraduate trainee.

Dr Vishal Kumar is working as an Additional Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India- an Institute and center of national importance and international reputation. Thirty-five International & National awards have rewarded his service delivery and temperament. Dr Vishal Kumar, MBBS, MS (Ortho.), DNB (MAMS), MNASc, Dip. SICOT, FACS, FFSTEd, FRCS (Glas), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Edn) has authored forty chapters in different textbooks of Orthopaedics apart from editing six of them. He has more than three hundred and twenty five paper publications in peer-reviewed world-class journals. He has been trained in the sub-specialty of Spine & Trauma by ten international & seven national fellowships. Dr Kumar has innovated several surgical procedures well published in the literature and has four patents granted to his credit.

Dr. Sitanshu Barik (MBBS, DNB, FAGE, MNAMS, AFAMS, MCh Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Pediatric Upper Limb Fellow) graduated from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore. He is the first MCh degree holder from India in Paediatric Orthopaedics. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur. He has more than 100 peer-reviewed international publications and delivered numerous presentations at national and international gatherings. His interests include Pediatric Orthopedics, Musculoskeletal Oncology, Hand Surgery, Traumatology, and Medical Education.

Prof. Sarvdeep Singh Dhatt MBBS, MS (Orth.), MNAMS, works as an Additional Professor at the Department of Orthopaedics in PGIMER, Chandigarh. He has published over 175 publications, including 25 chapters in various orthopedics books. He has authored three books widely read and referred to by Orthopaedic surgeons across the countries. He is a member of the International Committee of Eurospine. He has won many national and international awards, such as the "VaroonMahajan Memorial Trust Inc." Travelling fellowship, Harvard Spine Fellowship, CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL Springer India Pvt Ltd Scoliosis Research Society 2016 Global Outreach Program (GOP) Educational Scholarship award, and the Scoliosis Research Society Medical Fellow award 2016.