Handbook of Surgical Complications in Orthopaedics 2026: A Clinical Textbook Covering Intraoperative Decision-Making, Perioperative Risk Reduction, and Evidence-Based Salvage for Trauma Fellows by Gordon T. Collins

Every orthopaedic surgeon has faced that moment — the popliteal artery bleeding into the posterior capsule, the MEP amplitude dropping 65% mid-correction, the cauda equina symptoms called in at 2 AM — and what happens in the next sixty seconds determines whether that patient walks out of hospital. When surgeons face intraoperative crises without a structured decision framework, they improvise — and improvisation under pressure produces delayed recognition, the wrong first move, and recoverable complications that become permanent. This handbook builds the clinical architecture that converts every major orthopaedic surgical crisis into a sequenced decision, so the next intraoperative emergency is managed with precision, not instinct alone. Inside this book: • The Intraoperative Crisis Decision Atlas — 20 structured crisis entries across 7 operative domains, each with an immediate decision pivot, trap logic, and outcome anchor built for rapid on-call reference Read more