CME expires July 31, 2028

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

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 diagnosis and prevention of scapular notching and scapular fractures after reverse shoulder arthroplasty, focusing on clinical assessment, radiographic interpretation, and accurate diagnosis. General strategies for the prevention of these injuries also are 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 
Umasuthan Srikumaran, MD, MBA, FAAOS

Learning Objectives

• List diagnostic challenges that may affect clinical decision making in the management of scapular notching and scapular spine fractures after reverse shoulder arthroplasty.
• Explain the pathophysiology, etiology, and typical clinical presentation of scapular notching and scapular fractures after reverse shoulder arthroplasty.
• Review best practices for the clinical evaluation and imaging-based diagnosis of scapular complications after reverse shoulder arthroplasty.
• Describe key strategies to avoid diagnostic errors and improve recognition of scapular notching, acromial fractures, and scapular spine fractures after reverse shoulder arthroplasty.
• Summarize evidence-based treatment principles and surgical techniques to minimize the risk and effects of these complications.

Earn up to 5 AMA PRA Category 1 CME credits™.