CME expires November 30, 2027

Enhance your skills to increase accuracy in diagnosing musculoskeletal injuries and conditions.

This compilation collects the following Diagnosis Spotlight courses, offering a comprehensive exploration of complications and challenges associated with total knee arthroplasty (TKA):

• Diagnosis Spotlight: Flexion Instability After Total Knee Arthroplasty
• Diagnosis Spotlight: Osteolysis-Induced Component Loosening After Total Knee Arthroplasty
• Diagnosis Spotlight: Osteonecrosis of the Knee
• Diagnosis Spotlight: Patellofemoral Instability After Total Knee Arthroplasty
• Diagnosis Spotlight: Periprosthetic Distal Femur Fractures

Note: The content of this compilation matches the content of the associated individual courses. If you purchase this compilation, there is no need to purchase the associated individual courses.

Welcome to Diagnosis Spotlight, a comprehensive educational course geared for orthopaedic surgeons at all career stages. This course is designed to address a critical aspect of orthopaedic practice—enhancing the accuracy of diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries and conditions. Each course focuses on the pearls and pitfalls for avoiding missed diagnoses and diagnostic errors, with an emphasis on mastering clinical evaluation, recognizing specific imaging findings, systematically evaluating differential diagnoses, and reviewing injury treatment strategies. Enhance your diagnostic skills with real-life case studies, expert insights, interactive learning activities, quizzes, and access to supplemental resources from the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Orthopaedic Video Theater, and AAOS books.

In this Diagnosis Spotlight course, you will review the intricacies and best practices for clinical evaluation and diagnosis of common and challenging complications after total knee arthroplasty (TKA): flexion instability, osteolysis-induced component loosening, osteonecrosis, patellofemoral instability, and periprosthetic fractures. General strategies for the management of these complications are also discussed.

As an additional resource, this course includes the Revised Safer Dx Instrument, a tool developed by the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine to help identify potential diagnostic errors and guide safety improvement efforts that prevent future errors. The instrument assesses various aspects of a primary care encounter for breakdowns in the diagnostic process, and its use can help standardize the detection of diagnostic errors in primary care.

Editors 
Bryce Corban Allen, MD, FAAOS 
Irshad A. Shakir, MD, FAAOS 
Nathan Kaplan, MD, FAAOS

Learning Objectives

• Describe techniques to accurately diagnose common and challenging complications following total knee arthroplasty (TKA), including flexion instability and patellofemoral instability.
• Summarize treatment options for managing complications such as periprosthetic fractures, osteonecrosis, and osteolysis-induced component loosening.
• Explore strategies to prevent diagnostic errors and improve outcomes for patients with total knee arthroplasty (TKA) complications.

Earn up to 25 AMA PRA Category 1 CME credits™.