Orthopaedic Summer Weekend Wet-Lab - Melbourne - 18 - 19 January 2025

Orthopaedic Summer Weekend Wet-Lab
Combined Stifle Orthopaedics + Internal and External Fixation
Melbourne - Saturday & Sunday 18-19 January 2025

Join us for an orthopaedic surgery wet-lab in Melbourne this January. This course brings together the opportunity to manage the most commonly seen surgical conditions of the stifle joint as well as the opportunity to repair a wide variety of commonly seen fractures using both bone plates as well as external skeletal fixation

• MMP tibial tuberosity advancement procedure for cranial cruciate ligament deficiency

• Arthrotomy for lameness associated with meniscus tears

• Tibial Tuberosity Transposition (TTT) and RidgeStop (RS) for patellar luxation

• String of Pearls - SOP™ locking plate system

• KEFS® - new dynamic ESF system

Objectives  

• Learn the fundamentals of TTA with a focus on critical case selection, avoiding and managing complications and achieve repeatable and successful surgical outcomes with TTA in practice

• Have confidence to safely inspect menisci and manage mensical tears

• Practice TTT for the correction of extensor mechanism malalignment in association with RidgeStop for patellar luxationTo gain a strong understanding of the principles of fracture repair

• To familiarise yourself with various reduction and fracture fixation techniques, and their pros and cons for different fracture types and patients

• Successful application of an ESF frames (using KEFS®)  and plates (using SOP™) on a variety of long bone fractures.
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Course Structure   

Online pre-lab prerequisites:

To make best use of the time hands-on time available in the wet-lab and to ensure delegates have a sound foundational knowledge, online learning material including pre-recorded webinar lectures and structured interactive courses will be made available to the delegates prior to the course. 
Course materials include online courses with accompanying quizzes as well as pre-recorded  a series of presentations 
 

Hands-on Workshop:

Wet-lab using cadavers and dry-lab using bone models.

Hands on lab time will include sawbone exercises using bone models.

Wet-lab includes practising arthrotomy with meniscus inspection, MMP, TTT and RS procedures. Application of internal and external fracture fixation techniques to femoral, tibial and radial fractures.

Event Details

Speaker	Bruce Nwadike DVM DipACVS MRCVS
	Dr. Bruce Nwadike is a board-certified veterinary surgeon with a special interest in orthopaedics, surgical oncology, general and reconstructive surgery. He has co-owned and operated a private referral practice in southern Maryland since 2002 after relocating from NC where he was a faculty surgeon at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine. He has published clinical and original research articles in peer-reviewed journals and also served for 6 years on the editorial review board for the Veterinary Surgery Journal.
Date	8:30am - 5:00pm Saturday & Sunday 18-19 January 2025
Venue	Veterinary Training Centre 8/37 Keilor Park Drive, KEILOR PARK VIC 3042   12mins drive from Melbourne Airport
Cost	$2000 AUD excl
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