AD152 – Advance25 Orthopaedics for Advanced Practitioners

Learn in your own time with this fully flexible Advance25TM Course.

Enjoy unlimited access to your course materials for a full 12 months. Ask all the questions you like on the discussion forum – there are no stupid questions! Get the help you need to deal effectively with your Orthopaedic patients.

Complete the course and get your CPD / CE Certificate for 25 Hours of learning.

Use your new knowledge and skills straight away in your practice.
Revisit your course materials at any time during your 12 months’ access to refresh your knowledge whenever you have a relevant patient.

Session 1: Complex Articular Fractures

Webinar 1 – Humeral Condylar Fractures
Role of Humeral Intracondylar Fissure, options for unicondylar fractures, how to approach bicondylar fractures

Webinar 2 – Other Articular Fractures
Femoral condylar fractures, patellar fractures including patellar fracture and dental anomaly syndrome, tarsal fractures

Session 2: Salvage/Reconstructive Surgery

Webinar 1 – Arthrodesis
Shoulder, carpus, stifle, tarsus

Webinar 2 – Total Joint Replacement
Total hip replacement, Total knee replacement, Total elbow replacement, Total ankle replacement

Session 3: Minimally Invasive Surgery

Webinar 1 – Minimally Invasive Osteosynthesis
Minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis, Minimally invasive elastic plate osteosynthesis, Minimally invasive nail osteosynthesis, percutaneous pinning

Webinar 2 – Arthroscopy
Elbow arthroscopy controversies, shoulder arthroscopy, stifle arthroscopy, nanoscope utility, fracturoscopy

Session 4: Angular Limb Deformities

Webinar 1 – Antebrachial Deformities
Assessment challenges, Acute v gradual correction, ESF v ORIF, 3-D guides, soft tissue challenges

Webinar 2 – Patellar Luxation – when a tibial tuberosity transposition just isn’t enough
Assessment challenges, when to perform a distal femoral osteotomy (DFO), how to perform a DFO, other tibial osteotomies, the role of early intervention

Session 5: When the Routine Joint Surgery is not Routine

Webinar 1 – Cruciate controversies
Which high tibial osteotomy, excessive tibial plateau angle, cranial cruciate rupture + medial patellar luxation, the role of the meniscus, feline cranial cruciate disease

Webinar 2 – Low level evidence what should we do
Osteotomies for medial coronoid disease, surgeries for osteochondrosis and Achilles tendinopathy

Session 6: High Energy Trauma

Webinar 1 – Spinal fractures
Patient assessment and decision making, reduction techniques, stabilisation options- Plates, Pin/screw PMMA, Pedicle screws, SI luxation/fractures

Webinar 2 –  Polytrauma
Prioritising injuries, Adjusting stabilisation techniques – Orthogonal plating, interlocking nails, disadvantages of ESF, concurrent luxation. Comminuted diaphyseal fractures, pelvic fractures, metabone fractures

What do Vets Say About this Course Format?

‘Great Flexibility with online CPD. The option to interact with colleagues and ask questions on forum.’

Annette Moyart MRCVS

‘The forum was brilliant’

Adele Fryers MRCVS

Tutors

Scott Rutherford BVMS CertSAS DipECVS MRCVS
RCVS Recognised and EBVS European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery

Karen Perry BVM&S CertSAS DipECVS MSc Vet Ed FHEA MRCVS

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