| Session 1 Trauma: Fractures I - hand |
| 1 |
Closed treatment of hand fractures |
| 2 |
Metacarpal & carpometacarpal injuries |
| 3 |
Phalangeal fractures |
| 4 |
PIPJ fractures and dislocations |
| 5 |
The thumb base - Bennett's and Rolando fractures |
| 6 |
Small group discussion |
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| Session 2 Trauma: Fractures II - wrist |
| 1 |
Distal radius fractures: incidence, anatomy, principles of treatment |
| 2 |
Distal radius fractures: complex injuries, orif and bridging plates |
| 3 |
Scaphoid: acute fractures diagnosis and management |
| 4 |
Perilunate dislocations and other carpal bone fractures |
| 5 |
Managing scaphoid non-union |
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Small group discussion |
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| Session 3: Practicals |
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| Session 4: Tendon |
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Flexor tendon injuries and FDP avulsions |
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Flexor tendon repair techniques - suture techniques and rehabilitation |
| 3 |
Flexor tendon late reconstruction (including tenolysis) |
| 4 |
Extensor tendon closed treatment and repair |
| 5 |
Mallet and Boutonniere injuries |
| 6 |
Small group: tendon injury |
| 7 |
Dupuytren's disease |
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| Session 5: Infection |
| 1 |
The anatomical basis and surgical management of acute infections of the hand |
| 2 |
Necrotising fasciitis |
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| Session 6: Soft tissue cover |
| 1 |
Flaps forearm and hand |
| 2 |
Principles of microsurgery: reconstruction |
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Surgical management of fingertip injuries including nailbed & complications / deformity |
| 4 |
Options for thumb reconstruction, principles |
| 5 |
Small goup discussion |
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| Session 7: Tumors |
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Benign soft tissue and bone tumours |
| 2 |
Malignant bone and soft tissue tumours |
| 3 |
Vascular tumours |
| 4 |
Compartment syndrome: hand and forearm, injection injuries and extravasation |
| 5 |
Principles of management of thermal, chemical and electrical burns |
| 6 |
Burns constructures and reconstruction |
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| Session 8: Practicals |
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| Session 9: Nerve |
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Nerve compression: carpal tunnel syndrome and ulnar nerve compression |
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Nerve repair: surgical technique and results |
| 3 |
Brachial plexus anatomy and examination |
| 4 |
Obstetric brachial plexus |
| 5 |
Adult brachial plexus |
| 6 |
Discussion and questions |
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| Session 10: The wrist |
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Wrist anatomy, imaging, kinematics |
| 2 |
Acute ligament injuries - reconstruction |
| 3 |
Chronic ligament injuries salvage PRC 6 4 CF / Fusion |
| 4 |
Osteoarthritis of the wrist: treatment options, arhtoplasty including DRUJ |
| 5 |
Discussion and cases |
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| Session 11: Arthritis |
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The rheumatoid wrist and hand |
| 2 |
Arthritis in the thumb |
| 3 |
Arthritis in the fingers |
| 4 |
The anatomy and physiology of the forearm rotation |
| 5 |
Arthroscopy, ulnar sided wrist pain and the TFCC |
| 6 |
Discussion wrist |
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| Session 12: Practicals |
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| Session 13: Congenital I |
| 1 |
Children's fractures in the upper limb |
| 2 |
Upper limb development and sonic hedgehog |
| 3 |
Talking with children and parents, planning treatment, and consent |
| 4 |
Syndactyly |
| 5 |
Trigger digits, camptodactyly, clinodactyly |
| 6 |
Cleft hand, symbrachydactyly and transverse absence, toe to hand transfers |
| 7 |
Radial, central and ulnar polydactyly - overview |
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| Session 14: Congenital II |
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Radial dysplasia (excluding thjmb hypoplasia), ulnar dysplasia & phocomelia |
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Surgical treatment of thumb hypoplasia |
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Gloves syndactyly / Z-plasty |
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Discussion congenital - hypoplastic syndactyly / polliization yes or no / radial long deficiency |
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| Session 15: Tendon transfers and spasticity |
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Principles and techniques of tendon transfer |
| 2 |
Transfers for radial nerve lesions |
| 3 |
Transfers for median nerve lesions |
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Transfers for ulnar nerve lesions |
| 5 |
Currently useful nerve transfers - an overview |
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Spasticity - CP and Tetraplegia |
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Discussion and questions: tendon, nerve transfers and spasticity |
