Orthopaedic surgeries with a mortality benefit:
1) Hip fracture repairs or replacements, extraordinarily common
2) Amputations (traumatic, infectious or malignancy), very common
3) Femur fractures
4) Elderly distal femur fractures
5) Pelvic exfix for hemodynamic instability
6) Extremity infection I&D's including necrotizing fasciitis
7) Anything ortho onc (tumor resection and endoprosthesis for Ewing's or osteosarcoma)
8) Ortho spine (anything high c-spine fracture stabilization or repair, tumor)
9) Ortho peds (neuromuscular peds scoli)
10) Posterior sternoclavicular dislocations
11) Compartment syndrome fasciotomies
12) Open fractures