The OrthoPodcast Prelude

Infection is slowly on the rise, now the leading cause of revision in Australia. Professor Paul Smith AM, the clinical director of the AOANJRR, discusses the 2023 AOANJRR report's special chapter on Infection. He also discusses the new findings from that report still relevant today: Collared implants, Vitamin E infused polyethylene, the results of hip approach and technology in knee replacement.

After taking the UFC Featherweight Championship with the fastest knockout in UFC title bout history, on a 15-win streak, Conor McGregor made the cover of Sports Illustrated on February 29, 2016. Five days later, he suffered his first UFC loss. The Sports Illustrated Cover Curse has a well documented history of tainting the careers of athletes who grace its cover. Professor Ian Harris is a renowned academic Orthopaedic Surgeon from Sydney, who is the author of books; Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo and Hippocrasy. We examine how heuristics and biases so commonly lead us to fallacies and error in decision making.

Is a coin flip really 50/50? And why did Steve Jobs have to change the probability of certain songs playing on Shuffle? Carl Holder MBioStat, a biostatistician with the AOANJRR joins the OrthoPodcast to discuss statistics concepts in the Australian joint registry, and registries more broadly.

Richard de Steiger is a past president of the International Society of Arthroplasty Registries. We discuss the history of registries, what they're useful for, and where registries are going into the future.

This is an introductory episode to the OrthoPodcast. A show that will delve into orthopaedic registries around the world, with a focus on in-depth studies in Australia and abroad.