Course description
Online precourse self-assessment prepares participants for the course and allows the faculty to tailor the course to the needs of the participants. Before attending the course, participants are expected to complete online modules on bone healing and classification.
The course contains several evidence-based lectures, which cover the key information required. The AO Skills Lab engages participants in hands-on learning of basic principles and practical know-how needed for live surgery. With experiences such as proper
tightening of a screw and feeling the difference between drilling with sharp and blunt drill bits, participants gain important surgical skills and learn about basic biomechanical concepts in a safe, instructive environment. In practical exercises participants will
be trained in the application of fixation techniques. Discussing cases in small groups helps participants to understand decision-making and management skills.

After the course, an online postcourse self-assessment provides participants an opportunity to review the important topics from the course

Goal of the course:
The AOTrauma Course-Basic Principles of Fracture Management teaches fundamental principles and current concepts in the treatment of injuries, incorporating the latest techniques in operative fracture management. The AOTrauma Basic Principles course is the initial step along the path of lifelong learning in the area of operative fracture management. This course mainly focuses on the basic principles of fracture management.

Target participants:
The AOTrauma Course-Basic Principles of Fracture Management is targeted at physicians in surgical training but is also open to anyone else who is interested in furthering their knowledge and skills in operative fracture management.

Course objectives:
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Discuss the concepts of stability, their influence on bone healing, and how
  to apply implants to achieve appropriate stability

• Plan a treatment based on assessment, imaging, classification,
  and decision making

• Apply reduction techniques in fracture management with attention
  to the importance of the soft tissues

• Treat diaphyseal and simple (peri)articular fractures using different application
  techniques

• Evaluate and recognize the special problems related to fractures in the immature
  skeleton, pelvic injuries, osteoporotic fractures, postoperative infection, delayed
  union and/or nonunion

• Plan the initial treatment of the polytraumatized patient

 

 

Chairperson : 
George Babis

Professor and Chairman 2nd Orthopaedic Department,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
School of Medicine Greece

 

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Details

• Level: Basic

• Language: English

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Event organization
Anja Sutter

Clavadelerstrasse 8, 7270 Davos Platz, Switzerland

Phone: +41 79 758 52 69

E-mail: Anja.sutter@aofoundation.org


 

Participant information and contact

If you have any questions, please contact Global Event Services:
E-mail: aoges.emea@aofoundation.org

Phone: +41 79 805 10 42

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Commercial partners :  DePuy Synthes

 

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• Darmanis Spyridon, Deputy Director, 401 General Military Hospital, Athens, Greece
   

• Kateros Konstantinos, Director, 1st Dept. of Trauma and Orthopedics, General Hospital “G. Gennimatas”, Athens, Greece
   

• Kokkalis Zinon, Associate Professor of orthopedic surgery, Patras University Hospital, Patras, Greece
   

• Mavrogenis Andreas, Associate Professor National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
   

• Natsioulas Nikolaos Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Orthopaedic department, Naval Hospital of Athens, Greece
   

• Nikolaou Vasileios, Associate Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
   

• Panagopoulos Andreas, Associate Professor, Patras University Hospital, Patras, Greece
   

• Stamatis Emmanouil, Director, Clinic of Reconstructive Foot and Ankle Surgery, Mediterraneo Hospital, Athens, Greece.
   

• Tosounidis Theodoros, Assistant Professor, University Hospital of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
   

• Tyllianakis Minos, Professor of Orthopedics and Traumatology, University of Patras, Director of the Rehabilitation Clinic for
  Patients with Spinal Cord Injury of the University of Patras

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Local organization and logistics :

221 P. Ralli, 184 50 Nikaia, Greece
Phone +30 210 425 00 72
info@travelmind.gr

Venue : 
DOMOTEL KASTRI HOTEL
Address 154 El. Venizelou Str. & Romilias
Postalcode 14671
Tel. +30 210 350 7100
fax +30 210 350 7121
Email kastri@domotel.gr
 

 

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