11th & 12th June 2026
Manchester Surgical Skills & Simulation Centre
Thursday 11th June 2026 – Day 1
| 08:15 | Arrivals & Registration | |
| 08:45 | Welcome and Introduction | Nayagam |
| 08:55 | History of the Management of Open Fractures | Narayan |
| 09:05 | Evidence (Principles of OTF Mx) | Nanchahal |
| 09:20 | Emergency Department Mx | Ives |
| 09:35 | Wound Extensions & Soft Tissue Debridement | Harry |
| 09:45 | Bone Debridement | Robinson |
| 09:55 | Blast & High Velocity Injuries | Baden |
| Eisenstein | ||
| 10:20 | Questions | |
| 10:25 | Coffee & Industry Stands | |
| 10:40 | Compartment Syndrome | Harrison |
| 10:55 | Vascular Injuries | Nassimizadeh |
| 11:10 | Degloving | Yao |
| 11:20 | Questions | |
| 11:30 | Principles of External Fixation | Mehta |
| 11:40 |
Sponsor Presentation – Orthofix |
TBC |
| 11:47 | Temporary Wound Cover | Naji |
| 11:55 |
Principles of Soft Tissue Reconstruction |
Hamnett |
| 12:10 |
Free Flaps vs Local Flaps |
Bell |
| 12:20 | Amputation in Open Tibial Fractures | Saldanha |
| 12:30 | Severe Open Fractures in Children |
Prior Sharma |
| 12:40 | Questions | |
| 12:45 | Lunch & Industry Stands | |
| Cadaveric Lab | ||
| 13:45 | Fasciotomy Technique | Hamnett |
| Wound extensions | ||
| Wound excision / Debridement | ||
| Temporary skeletal stabilization | Prior | |
| Application of external fixator across ankle | ||
| 15:30 | Coffee | |
|
Distally-based Fasciocutaneous flaps |
Bell | |
| Other local flaps for distal cover | ||
| Perforator Localization | ||
| 1700 | Summary & End of Day 1 | |
| 19:00 | Course Dinner at San Carlo San Carlo, 40-42 King Street West, Manchester, M3 2WY https://sancarlo.co.uk/restaurants |
Friday 12th June 2026
| 08:30 | Coffee & Registration | |
| 08:45 | Day 1 Recap | Giotakis |
| Cadaveric Lab | ||
| 09:00 | Popliteal Fossa Exposure | Yao |
| Godina approach | ||
| Shunting | ||
| Proximal soft tissue defect cover | Baden/Ives | |
| Proximally based fasciocutaneous flaps | ||
| Medial gastrocnemius flap | ||
| 10:15 | Coffee | |
| Cross knee external fixator | Robinson | |
| Semiextended tibial nail | Harrison | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Medical Microbiology in Open Fractures | Folb |
| 13:40 | Orthopaedic Management of Infection | Narayan |
| 13:50 | Sponsor Presentation – Biocomposites | Burnand |
| 13:57 | When things go wrong with soft tissues | Warner |
| 14:10 | Questions | |
| 14:20 | When things go wrong with bone | Giotakis |
| 14:30 | Coffee | |
| 15:00 | Internal vs External Fixation – Nail vs Frame | Harrison |
| 15:10 | Management of Bone Defects | Eisenstein |
| 15:20 | Sponsor Presentation – J&J MedTech/ DePuy Synthes | Burnand |
| 15:27 |
Case Presentations |
All faculty |
| 16:20 | Cases Summary & Discussion | |
| 17:00 | Concluding remarks, feedback forms and course certificates | Giotakis |