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David Puskas

Accelerated surgery versus standard care in hip fracture (HIP ATTACK): an international, randomised, controlled trial
2020 · Flavia K Borges, Mohit Bhandari, et al. · The Lancet · 397
Oral direct factor Xa inhibition with edoxaban for thromboprophylaxis after elective total hip replacement: A randomised double-blind dose-response study
2010 · Alexander Cohen, Bengt Eriksson, et al. · Thrombosis and Haemostasis · 146
Improving spine surgical access, appropriateness and efficiency in metropolitan, urban and rural settings
2017 · Mohammad Zarrabian, Andrew Bidos, et al. · Canadian Journal of Surgery · 33
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Efficacy of surgical skin preparation solutions in hip arthroplasty: a prospective randomized trial
2022 · Kurt P. Droll, Marcel Abouassaly, et al. · Canadian Journal of Surgery · 11
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The effects of exercise and active assisted cycle ergometry in post‐operative total knee arthroplasty patients ‐ a randomized controlled trial
2021 · P. Sanzo, S. Niccoli, et al. · Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics · 10
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to Optimize Post-Operative Fracture Recovery (COPE): protocol for a randomized controlled trial
2022 · The COPE Investigators, Jason W. Busse, et al. · Trials · 9
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Impact of a Remote Patient Monitoring Platform on Outcomes Following a Total Hip or Knee Arthroplasty
2024 · Simrun Chahal, Rabail Siddiqui, et al. · Arthroplasty Today · 8
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Spinal Stabilization Using Orthopedic Extremity Instrumentation Sets During Operation Enduring Freedom–Afghanistan
2015 · Vijay M. Ravindra, Scott A. Wallace, et al. · World Neurosurgery · 8
Preliminary Report from the Ontario Interprofessional Spine Assessment and Education Clinics (ISAEC)
2014 · Raja Y. Rampersaud, Andrew Bidos, et al. · The Spine Journal · 7
In-person cognitive behavioural therapy vs. usual care after surgical management of extremity fractures: an unsuccessful feasibility trial
2024 · Kyle Gouveia, Sheila Sprague, et al. · Pilot and Feasibility Studies · 6
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Canadian Spine Society1.01: Do lumbar decompression and fusion patients recall their preoperative status? Recall bias in patient-reported outcomes1.02: Trends and costs of lumbar fusion and disc replacement surgeries in Ontario: a population-based study1.03: Ontario’s Inter-professional Spine Assessment and Education Clinics (ISAEC): patient, provider and system impact of an integrated model of care for the management of LBP1.04: Validation of the self-administered online assessment of preferences (SOAP) utility elicitation tool1.05: Performance indicators in spine surgery: a systematic review1.06: Inter-professional Spine Assessment and Education Clinics (ISAEC): a networked model of care with changes to referral population profile and reduced surgical wait-times1.07: Improving spine surgical access, appropriateness and efficiency in metropolitan, urban and rural settings1.08: Reliability of the spine CPR score among emergency physicians1.09: Deriving a clinical prediction model for degenerative spine disorders1.10: Development of validated computer-based preoperative predictive model for reaching ODI MCID with 86% accuracy based on 198 ASD patients with 2-year follow-up1.11: Validation of the spine CPR score1.12: Can ultrasound detect curve progression of scoliosis without ionizing radiation?1.13: Relationship between age and nonoperative utilization in elective cervical spine surgery1.14: Larger global sagittal correction associated with increased PJK and major complications, but lead to better correction and HRQoL scores1.15: Comprehensive analysis of SRS appearance domain score drivers and comparative relationship to satisfaction in adults2.16: Incremental cost to Canada’s health care system of acute complications following spinal cord injury2.17: The prevalence and natural history of problematic spasticity following traumatic spinal cord injury2.18: Exploring the possibility of using artificial neural networks to predict mortality after spinal cord injury2.19: Developing a new index to predict mortality after spinal cord injury using machine learning techniques2.20: The impact of complications and opportunities to improve function, health and quality of life: our best approach to “cure” SCI today2.21: Delays in time from injury to specialized SCI centres increase in-hospital mortality in acute SCI2.22: The modified extremity motor (MEM) classification: A neurological classification of traumatic central cord syndrome (TCCS)2.23: The stable spine central cord syndrome (SCCS): a prospective surgical cohort2.24: Changes following acute traumatic spinal cord injury: a prospective pilot study on serial MRIs2.25: Next-generation MRI identifies tract-specific injury and predicts focal neurological deficits in degenerative cervical myelopathy: development and characterization of accurate imaging biomarkers for spinal cord pathologies2.26: Translating state-of-the-art spinal cord MRI techniques to clinical use: a systematic review of clinical studies using DTI, MT, MWF, MRS and fMRI2.27: Motor cortex electrical stimulation to promote spinal cord injury recovery in an animal model2.28: Role of muscle damage on loading at the level adjacent to a lumbar spine fusion: a biomechanical analysis2.29: Classifying injury severity and predicting neurologic outcome after acute human spinal cord injury with cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers2.30: Spine surgery a mari usque ad mare3.31: Prognostic factors for survival in a surgical series of symptomatic metastatic epidural spinal cord compression: a prospective North American multi-centre study in 142 patients3.32: Surgical management of spinal osteoblastomas3.33: General population utilities for metastatic epidural spinal cord compression health states3.34: Instrumentation following decompression for spinal metastases — Is there a need for fusion in addition to internal fixation?3.35: Do racial differences affect surgical outcomes in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy? Results from the prospective, multicentre AOSpine International study on 479 patients3.36: Is preoperative duration of symptoms a significant predictor of functional status and quality of life outcomes in patients undergoing surgery for the treatment of degenerative cervical myelopathy?3.37: Surgery for degenerative cervical myelopathy from an economic and outcome perspective: a cost–utility analysis of the combined data from the AOSpine North America and International studies3.38: Laminoplasty versus laminectomy and fusion to treat cervical spondylotic myelopathy: outcomes of the prospective multicentre AOSpine North America and International CSM studies3.39: The impact of spinal manipulation on lower extremity motor control in lumbar spinal stenosis patients: a single-blind randomized clinical trial3.40: Predictors of improved pain, function and quality of life following elective lumbar spine fusion surgery3.41: Objective measurement of free-living physical activity (performance) in lumbar spinal s
2016 · Ilyas Aleem, Yan Xu, et al. · Canadian Journal of Surgery · 6
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Accelerated Surgery Versus Standard Care in Hip Fracture (HIP ATTACK-1): A Kidney Substudy of a Randomized Clinical Trial
2022 · Flavia K. Borges, P.J. Devereaux, et al. · American Journal of Kidney Diseases · 4
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The effects of obesity on functional outcomes after total knee arthroplasty: a prospective cohort study
2025 · Mohammad Athar, Raghav Saini, et al. · Canadian Journal of Surgery · 3
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Comparison of a validated decision-support tool to a standard of care triage system for knee osteoarthritis assessment: a proof-of-concept study
2023 · Paige Wagar, Simrun Chahal, et al. · Canadian Journal of Surgery · 2
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Correction: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to Optimize Post-Operative Fracture Recovery (COPE): protocol for a randomized controlled trial
2023 · The COPE Investigators, Gina Del Fabbro, et al. · Trials · 2
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Preclinical assessment of the selective androgen receptor modulator RAD140 to increase muscle mass and bone mineral density
2025 · Jake Puskas, Teja Guda, et al. · Physiological Reports · 1
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Canadian Spine Society
2022 · Karamjot Sidhu, Dorothy Kim, et al. · Canadian Journal of Surgery · 1
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Additional file 2 of The effects of exercise and active assisted cycle ergometry in post-operative total knee arthroplasty patients - a randomized controlled trial
2021 · Sanzo, P., Niccoli, S., et al. · Figshare
Additional file 3 of The effects of exercise and active assisted cycle ergometry in post-operative total knee arthroplasty patients - a randomized controlled trial
2021 · Sanzo, P., Niccoli, S., et al. · Figshare
Combined Spine Conference of the Canadian Spine Society New Zealand Orthopaedic Spine Society, Spine Society of Australia: Fairmont Château Lake Louise, Lake, Louise, Alberta, Tuesday, Feb. 25 to Saturday, Mar. 1, 2014
2014 · van West H, Jean‐Marc Mac‐Thiong, et al. · Canadian Journal of Surgery
Combined Spine Conference of the Canadian Spine Society New Zealand Orthopaedic Spine Society, Spine Society of Australia: Fairmont Château Lake Louise, Lake, Louise, Alberta, Tuesday, Feb. 25 to Saturday, Mar. 1, 20141.1.01 The use of suspension radiographs to predict LIV tilt.1.1.02 Surgical correction of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis without fusion: an animal model.1.1.03 Are full torso surface topography postural measurements more sensitive to change than back only parameters in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis and a main thoracic curve?1.2.04 Restoration of thoracic kyphosis in adolescent idiopathic kyphosis: comparative radiographic analysis of round versus rail rods.1.2.05 Scoliosis surgery in spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy: Is fusion to the pelvis always necessary? A 4–18-year follow-up study.1.2.06 Identification and validation of pain-related biomarkers surrounding spinal surgery in adolescents.1.3.07 Cervical sagittal deformity develops after PJK in adult throacolumbar deformity correction: radiographic analysis using a novel global sagittal angular parameter, the CTPA.1.3.08 Impact of obesity on complications and patient-reported outcomes in adult spinal deformity surgery.1.3.09 The T1 pelvic angle, a novel radiographic measure of sagittal deformity, accounts for both pelvic retroversion and truncal inclination and correlates strongly with HRQOL.1.4.10 Determining cervical sagittal deformity when it is concurrent with thoracolumbar deformity.1.4.11 The influence of sagittal balance and pelvic parameters on the outcome of surgically treated patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis.1.4.12 Predictors of degenerative spondylolisthesis and loading translation in surgical lumbar spinal stenosis patients.2.1.13 Mechanical allodynia following disc herniation requires intraneural macrophage infiltration and can be blocked by systemic selenium delivery or attenuation of BDNF activity.2.1.14 The effect of alanyl-glutamine on epidural fibrosis in a rat laminectomy model.2.1.15 Anterior lumbar interbody fusion using recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2: a prospective study of complications.2.2.16 2-year results of a Canadian, multicentre, blinded, pilot study of a novel peptide in promoting lumbar spine fusion.2.2.17 Comparative outcomes and cost-utility following surgical treatment of focal lumbar spinal stenosis compared with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee: long-term change in health-related quality of life.2.2.18 Changes in objectively measured walking performance, function, and pain following surgery for spondylolisthesis and lumbar spinal stenosis.2.3.19 A prospective multicentre observational data-monitored study of minimally invasive fusion to treat degenerative lumbar disorders: complications and outcomes at 1-year follow-up.2.3.20 Assessment and classification of subsidence in lateral interbody fusion using serial computed tomography.2.3.21 Predictors of willingness to undergo spinal and orthopaedic surgery after surgical consultation.2.4.22 Indirect foraminal decompression is independent of facet arthropathy in extreme lateral interbody fusion.2.4.23 Cervical artificial disc replacement with ProDisc-C: clinical and radiographic outcomes with long-term follow-up.2.4.24 Tantalum trabecular metal implants in anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion.3.1.25 Hemangiomas of the spine: results of surgical management and prognostic variables for local recurrence and mortality in a multicentre study.3.1.26 Chondrosarcomas of the spine: prognostic variables for local recurrence and mortality in a multicentre study.3.1.27 Risk factors for recurrence of surgically treated spine schwannomas: analysis of 169 patients from a multicentre international database.3.2.28 Survival pattern and the effect of surgery on health related quality of life and functional outcome in patients with metastatic epidural spinal cord compression from lung cancer — the AOSpine North America prospective multicentre study.3.2.29 A biomechanical assessment of kyphoplasty as a stand-alone treatment in a human cadaveric burst fracture model.3.2.30 What is safer in incompetent vertebrae with posterior wall defects, kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty: a study in vertebral analogs.3.3.31 Feasibility of recruiting subjects for acute spinal cord injury (SCI) clinical trials in Canada.3.3.32 Prospective analysis of adverse events in elderly patients with traumatic spinal cord injury.3.3.33 Does traction before surgery influence time to neural decompression in patients with spinal cord injury?3.4.34 Current treatment of individuals with traumatic spinal cord injury: Do we need age-specific guidelines?3.4.35 Current surgical practice for traumatic spinal cord injury in Canada.3.4.36 The importance of “time to surgery” for traumatic spinal cord injured patients: results from an ambispective Canadian cohort of 949 patients.3.5.37 Assessment of a novel coil-shaped radiofrequency probe in the porcine spine.3.5.38 The effect of nor
2014 · H. van West, B. Hodgson, et al. · Canadian Journal of Surgery
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Noncemented fixation in total hip arthroplasty: basic science and clinical results
1997 · D. A. Puskas, J. R. Davey · Current Opinion in Orthopedics
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Citation count: 661
H-index: 8
I10-index: 5
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