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A simple technique for Kirschner-wire placement in small bones is to place the wire over the to-be-pinned bones, push the wire out through the skin, and run the wire back across the bones.

Keeping the endoscope warm until just before use eliminates the problem of fogging

Placing a loop of suture on an intramedullary nail locking screw keeps the screw firmly on the screwdriver. The screw can be retrieved should the need arise.

A simple technique is detailed for quickly clearing the tip of the arthroscope of particulate debris that may become lodged there while it is in place in the joint. Two or 3 taps with the back end of a Mayo scissors (or an instrument of equal weight) on the scope where it enters the joint should suffice. The taps must not be too firm, for fear of damaging the scope's fiberoptic cables.

After methadone overdosage, toxic effects may persist for 24 hours. Therapeutic levels of naloxone hydrochloride are more evanescent after single injection. Accordingly, slow, constant infusion of the drug would seem the preferred treatment of methadone overdose. A case is reported in which that method was used successfully.