Episode 1 : Scaphoid nonunion with Joe Dias

This episode features Professor Joe Dias, who will be familiar to many of you. Professor Joe Dias is a Consultant Hand and Orthopaedic Surgeon for the University Hospitals of Leicester with interest in exploring the evidence we use in clinical decision-making. He is Professor of Hand and Orthopaedic Surgery and Head of the Academic Team of Musculoskeletal Surgery (AToMS). His achievements are too many to mention but include a broad portfolio of research including the SWIFFT and DISC trials. Prof Dias has previously been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Hand Surgery (JHSE), President of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) in 2008 and President of the British Orthopaedic Association in 2012. We discuss 2 papers on the impact of previous surgery on Scaphoid Non-Union reconstruction and a comparison of different palmar approaches for screw fixation of scaphoid waist fractures.