Profile
Mr Constant Busch
Mr Busch was born in the Netherlands, In 1981 he immigrated to England and attended St George’s College in Weybridge, Surrey, England.
He attended Duke University in North Carolina, USA before starting his medical studies at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, obtaining his medical degree in 1991.
After obtaining his fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons of England he trained in general orthopaedics in the South West Thames Region, and obtained his certificate of completion specialist training in August 2003.
He completed a hip and knee reconstruction fellowship at the London Health Sciences Hospital in London, Ontario, Canada. It was here that Mr Busch studied the use of intra-operative administration of peri-articular pre-emptive analgesia during joint replacement in order to reduce postoperative pain, improve post-operative rehabilitation and reduce inpatient hospital stay.
He has been a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust since August 2004 and his special interest is primary and revision total hip and knee replacement and an interest in hip problems in the younger patients.
Qualifications
CCST 2003 FRCS (Tr & Orth), London, England 2002 FRCS part II, London, England 1996 FRCS (Eng) Part I, London, England 1993 MB BS, St Thomas’s Hospital, London, England 1991 BSc Honours Immunology, Rayne Institute, London, England 1988
CCST (Certificate of Completion of Specialist Surgical Training)
FRCS (Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England)
Membership
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association
British Hip Society
British Medical Association
Hospital Consultants and Specialist Association
General Medical Council
Journals
Mr Busch reviews articles related to joint replacement of the lower limb submitted to the British Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
Hobbies
Golf, Skiing, Cycling, Classic car building and rallying.
Publications
Early to mid-term outcome of Oxinium on Verilast highly cross-linked polyethylene bearing surface in uncemented total hip arthroplasty.
Anshul S Sobti, Constant A Busch, John A Afolayan, Dean Michael, Rishi Chana
Hip International January 11, 2019
Patient-matched Total Knee Arthroplasty : Does it offer any clinical advantages?
Samuel Barke, Ed Musanhu, Constant Busch, Giles Stafford, Richard Field
Acta Orthop. Belg., 2013, 79, 00-00
Failure of a metal on metal hip prostheses presenting as a destructive soft tissue mass due to ALVAL.
Hutt JR, Busch C, Hughes RA.
Rheumatol Int. 2011 Oct;31(10):1401-2. Epub 2010 Nov 27
Is peri-articular multimodal drug infiltration in knee arthroplasty safe when used in conjunction with autologous blood transfusion drains?
I Gill, K Gallagher, CA Busch
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Volume 92, No 4, May 2010
Acetabular Polyethylene Wear and Acetabular Inclination and Femoral Offset.
Nick J. Little MSc, MRCS, Constant A. Busch MD, FRCS, John A. Gallagher MD, FRACS, Cecil H. Rorabeck MD, FRCSC, Robert B. Bourne MD, FRCSC
CORR, Volume 467, Issue 11 / November, 2009
The Efficacy of Periarticular Multimodal Drug Infiltration in Total Hip Arthroplasty.
Busch CA, Whitehouse MR, Shore BJ, Macdonald SJ, McCalden RW, Bourne RB.
Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2009 Dec
Efficacy of Peri-articular Multimodal Drug Injection in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized Trial.
Constant A Busch FRCS (Tr and Orth), Benjamin J Shore MD, Rakesh Bhandari MD, Su Ganapathy FRCA, Steven J MacDonald MD, Robert B Bourne MD, Cecil H Rorabeck MD, Richard W McCalden MD.
JBJS (Am) Vol.88, May 2006 pages 959-963
Comparison of acetabular wear and osteolysis in RAM extruded versus compression molded Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE).
Richard McCalden MD, Constant A Busch FRCS (Tr and Orth), Robert B Bourne MD, Cecil H Rorabeck MD, Steven MacDonald MD, , Dr John M Martell MD, Christopher M Haydon HBSc
Journal of Arthroplasty - Volume 21, Issue 2, Page 304, February 2006
“The tapered femoral component”
C A Busch and R B Bourne
Book Chapter in the Adult Hip, 2nd Edition 2006
Edited by John J Callaghan, Aaron G Rosenberg and Harry E Rubash
Fractures of distally-fixed femoral stems after revision arthroplasty.
Constant A Busch FRCS (Tr and Orth), Mark N Charles MD, Christopher M Haydon HBSc, Robert B Bourne MD, Cecil H Rorabeck MD, Steven J MacDonald MD, Richard W McCalden MD.
JBJS (Br) Vol.87-B, No10, October 2005 pages 1333-1336
Video – “The indications for patellar resurfacing or non-resurfacing in Total Knee Replacement”
C A Busch, S Burnett, R B Bourne
Instructional Course Lectures 53, AAOS 2004
Augmentation of Acetabular Cement Fixation in Revision Hip Replacement Using Titanium Screws
Busch C A, Tucker J K , Wooster A
Hip International- Vol 11, No 2 , 2001
Cement mantle thickness in the Charnley Elite Plus Prosthesis
Isaac G, Busch C A, Shetty V
Journal of Engineering in Medicine Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part H, 2000, Vol 214 No H5, pages 471-477
Impaction Allografting of the Proximal Femur using a Charnley-type stem: A Cement Mantle Analysis
Masterson L E, Busch C A , Duncan C P, Drabu K J
Journal of Arthroplasty - Volume 14 , Number 1, 1999
Assessment of Supero-lateral Bulk Bone Grafts in Total Hip Replacement using Radiographs and Scintigraphy
Busch C A, Drabu K J
Hip International - Vol 9, No 1, 1999