Please note: the Fracture Management Wet-lab workshop sponsored by Kahuvet has reached maximum capacity.  Please follow the link below to be redirected to the Kahuvet and Practical CPD website to join the waiting list!

This highly practical two-day course is designed to improve your understanding of fracture mechanics and bone healing and to give you confidence in decision making and applying your surgical skills when presented with a fracture. The emphasis of this course will be on the kind of cases that present on a regular basis in practice. Both days will include seminars and hands-on cadaver practice.

Registration Fee: $2,410 NZD ex. GST per person

INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Damian Chase, BVSc, MANZCVS, DECVS

 

Course Description

This highly practical two-day course is designed to improve your understanding of fracture mechanics and bone healing, and to give you confidence in decision making and applying your surgical skills when presented with a fracture. The emphasis of this course will be on the kind of cases that present on a regular basis in practice. Both days will include seminars and hands-on cadaver practice.

Course Objectives

At the end of this workshop delegates should be able to:

• Assess a bone fracture and make an appropriate treatment plan

• Understand and apply principles relating to bone healing, fracture biomechanics, and intramedullary pinning

• Know how to avoid and treat complications

• Use cerclage wiring and small pins

• Apply bone plates and screws

• Be comfortable with the soft tissue approaches to common long bone fractures

Value to Your Practice

This two-day course is an excellent overview of fracture management and will teach you a variety of orthopaedic surgery techniques, allowing you to offer fracture repair as a service to your clients.

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