Practical Fracture Fixation
£1,997.00 (+VAT)
A highly practical course designed to build your confidence in assessing and stabilising common fractures, combining clear decision-making frameworks with hands-on fixation techniques applicable to first-opinion practice. Leave with new skills and the confidence to use them in your practice.
“Excellent practical course and great discussion.”
“Really enjoyed this course. Very practical and low student to tutor ratio meant close supervision of teaching.”
Practical Fracture Fixation
Do you want to become more confident dealing with common fractures typically seen in first opinion practice? This course is an excellent follow on from the Introduction to Orthopaedics course, but is equally suitable as a stand-alone course for vets with basic or intermediate orthopaedic experience. Practical sessions will allow you to become comfortable with basic fracture fixation techniques using plastic bones and models. You’ll then be able to apply the techniques learned in wet labs. Guidance from the experienced and approachable tutors will help you gain the confidence to tackle common fractures seen in your practice.
What you’ll learn:
- How to assess your patient
- Fracture assessment and implant selection
- Decision making in skeletally immature patients
- Physeal fractures
- How to apply bone plates and screws
- Non locking and locking plates
- Decision making and application of external fixators
- Practical experience in approaching and stabilising antebrachial, tibial and femoral fractures
Course Tutor: Scott Rutherford BVMS CertSAS DipECVS FRVCS, RCVS and European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery
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This is a relatively new course. Feedback from vets on Scott Rutherford’s other courses for CPD Solutions:
“Excellent course, It will enable me to choose the fixation method on more scientific grounds”
“Great discussion about complications and the detailed physiology of bone healing, also the description of the use of locking plates”
“Very practical course with easy-to-follow guide of investigating and treating limb lameness!”
“It will help with a systematic approach to lameness assessment and I’ll be able to give better advice for management of specific conditions”
