PO-05 · Transfemoral Prosthetics

Transfemoral Prosthetics. Part of the Prosthetics & Orthotics series of the Reflex PM&R Board Review podcast. Audio correction: In the audio: exacting a massive 65 to 100 percent energy cost above baseline — Correct: The vascular transfemoral figure is 100 to 120 percent of oxygen cost per unit distance above able-bodied, with the 2021 meta-analysis giving 102 percent. The 65 to 100 percent band understates it by roughly half at the lower bound, which matters because the point being made is that this cost exceeds the patient's cardiovascular reserve. The written chapter is correct. Full correction register: https://www.reflexpmr.com/errata. The full companion chapter and a linked board-style Q-bank set for this topic are at https://www.reflexpmr.com/read/PO-05.