4th & 5th September 2025
Manchester Surgical Skills & Simulation Centre
Thursday 4th September 2025 – Day 1
| 08:30 | Arrivals & Registration | |
| 09:00 | Welcome and Introduction | Giotakis |
| 09:05 | History of the Management of Open Fractures | Saldanha |
| 09:20 | Case Discussion – Principles of OTF Management | Giotakis |
| 09:35 | Emergency Department | Ives |
| 09:45 | Wound Extensions & Soft Tissue Debridement | Naji |
| 09:55 | Bone Debridement | Peterson |
| 10:05 | Blast & High Velocity Injuries | Baden |
| 10:20 | Questions | |
| 10:25 | Coffee | |
| 10:40 | Compartment Syndrome | Harrison |
| 10:55 | Vascular Injuries | Ives |
| 11:10 | Degloving | Yao |
| 11:20 | Questions | |
| 11:30 | Principles of External Fixation | Mehta |
| 11:40 |
Sponsor Presentation – Orthofix |
Harrison |
| 11:47 | Temporary Wound Cover | Nagarajan |
| 11:55 |
Principles of Soft Tissue Reconstruction |
Hamnett |
| 12:10 |
Free Flaps vs Local Flaps |
Bell |
| 12:20 | Amputation in Open Tibial Fractures | Atan |
| 12:30 | Severe Open Fractures in Children | Prior |
| 12:40 | Questions | |
| 12:45 | Lunch | |
| Cadaveric Lab | ||
| 13:45 | Fasciotomy Technique | |
| Wound extensions | ||
| Wound excision / Debridement | ||
| Temporary skeletal stabilization | ||
| Application of external fixator across ankle | ||
| 15:30 | Coffee | |
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Distally-based Fasciocutaneous flaps |
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| 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 5th September 2025
| 08:30 | Coffee & Registration | |
| 08:45 | Day 1 Recap | Giotakis |
| Cadaveric Lab | ||
| 09:00 | Popliteal Fossa Exposure | |
| Godina approach | ||
| Shunting | ||
| Proximal soft tissue defect cover | ||
| Proximally based fasciocutaneous flaps | ||
| Medial gastrocnemius flap | ||
| 10:15 | Coffee | |
| Cross knee external fixator | ||
| Semiextended tibial nail | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Medical Microbiology in Open Fractures | Folb |
| 13:40 | Orthopaedic Management of Infection | Saldanha |
| 13:50 | Sponsor Presentation – Biocomposites | Mitchell |
| 13:57 | When things go wrong with soft tissues | Baden |
| 14:10 | Questions | |
| 14:20 | When things go wrong with bone | Narayan |
| 14:30 | Coffee | |
| 15:00 | Internal vs External Fixation – Nail vs Frame | Harrison |
| 15:10 | Management of Bone Defects | Fischer |
| 15:20 | Sponsor Presentation – Synthes | Mitchell |
| 15:27 |
Case Presentations |
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| 16:20 | Cases Summary & Discussion | |
| 17:00 | Concluding remarks, feedback forms and course certificates | Giotakis |