Practice Points

NAON’s practice points deliver efficient, evidence-based information about specific orthopaedic-related patient issues that include the pathophysiology of the complication, risk factors, strategies to prevent the complication, assessments, and interventions.

• Non-Union/Delayed Union
• Compartment Syndrome
• Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting
• Thromboembolic Disease
• Acute Pain Management
• Pressure Injury
• Postoperative Urinary Retention
• Chronic Pain
• Fat Embolism (FE) and Fat Embolization Syndrome (FES)
• Postoperative Delirium