Please Note: The following programme information is from the 2023 running of the course. A 2025 updated Programme Information page will be provided nearer the time of the 2025 course.
7th & 8th September 2023
Human Anatomy Resource Department
University of Liverpool
Thursday 7th September 2023 – Day 1
| 08:30 | Arrivals & Registration | |
| 09:00 | Welcome and Introduction | Giotakis |
| 09:05 | History of the Management of Open Fractures | Pearse |
| Early Management | Chair: Saldanha | |
| 09:20 | Case Discussion | |
| 09:35 | Emergency Room | Ives |
| 09:45 | Wound Extensions & Soft Tissue Debridement | Harry |
| 09:55 | Bone Debridement | Peterson |
| 10:05 | Analysis of the paper “bone fragments retain or remove” | Narayan |
| 10:15 | Questions | |
| 10:25 | Tea/Coffee Break | |
| Perfusion Problems | Chair: Bell | |
| 10:40 | Compartment Syndrome | Narayan |
| 10:55 | Vascular Injuries | Ives |
| 11:05 | Degloving | Fattah |
| 11:15 | Questions | |
| Cadaveric Lab | ||
| 11:25 |
1. Demonstration of Fasciotomy Technique
2. Debridement, Wound Extensions, Fasciotomy Perforator localization |
Harry Hamnett |
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Fixation and cover part 1 |
Chair: Giotakis | |
| 12:30 | Temporary Skeletal Stabilization | Briones |
| 12:40 | Lunch | |
| Cadaveric Lab | ||
| 13:25 | Application of spanning external fixator across tibia & ankle | Prior |
| Fixation and cover part 2 | Chair: Fischer | |
| 14.30 | Temporary Dressings | Nanchahal |
| 14:40 | Principles of Soft Tissue Reconstruction | Nanchahal |
| 14:55 | Debate: “free vs local flaps” | Nanchahal vs Bell |
| 15:05 | Questions | |
| 15:15 | Coffee | |
| Cadaveric Lab | ||
| 15:30 |
Distally-based Fasciocutaneous flap Other distal local flaps Perforator Localization |
Yao
Bell Hamnett | Klass | Yao |
| 16:40 | Case discussions on compartment syndrome: “Late diagnosis, decompress or not? | |
| 16:55 | End of Day 1 | |
| 19:30 | Course Dinner at Sultan’s Palace Restaurant 75 – 77 Victoria Street, Liverpool, L1 6DE https://www.sultans-palace.co.uk |
Friday 8th September 2023 – Day 2
| 08:30 | Coffee | |
| 08:45 | Day 1 Recap | Giotakis |
| Key Topics | Chair: Pearse | |
| 08:50 | Definitive stabilization: Internal or External fixation | Harrison |
| 09:00 | Severe open fractures in children | Prior |
| 09:10 | Debate: “Nail vs frame” | Narayan vs Giotakis |
| 09:20 | Questions | |
| Cadaveric Lab | ||
| 09:30 | Demonstration and Practical 1. Popliteal fossa exposure, godina approach, shunting 2. Proximal soft tissue defect cover |
Simmons
Nagarajan |
| 10:45 | Coffee | |
| Complex Scenarios | Chair: Bell | |
| 11:00 | Amputation in open tibia fractures | Pearse |
| 11:10 | Management of bone defects | Fischer |
| 11:20 | Blast and high velocity injuries | Baden |
| 11:35 | Questions | |
| When things go wrong… | ||
| 11:45 | With soft tissues | Baden |
| 11:55 | With Bone | Giotakis |
| 12:05 | Pourring pus “The phone call | Pearse vs Folb |
| 12:15 | Ortho management of infection | Pearse |
| 12:25 | Med micro in open fractures | Folb |
| 12:45 | Allocation of cases for discussion | Fisher | Nagarajan | Hamnet |
| 13:15 | Lunch Break | |
| Cadaveric Lab | ||
| 14:05 |
Application of monocortical fixator
Semiextended nailing |
Giotakis
Graham |
| Case Discussion | ||
| 15:00 | Case presentations and discussion | |
| 16:30 | Concluding remarks, feedback forms and course certificates | Bell |