Join Vet Community for their Bone Plate Fixation Masterclass in Queensland this July. In this two-day course, learn locking and conventual plate fixation of common long bone fractures in small animals.
The agenda looks something like this:
Day One Lectures
- Optimising bone healing
- Decision making in fracture management
- Preparation for surgery
- Bone screws
- Bone plates
- Locking plates
- Anatomic reconstruction of shaft fractures
- Bridging fixation
- Fractures of the radius and ulna
Day Two Lectures
- Bone grafting
- Open fractures
- Fractures of the tibia
- Fractures of the femur
- Complications in fracture healing
Cadaveric Practical Sessions
- Surgical approach to the radius
- Compression plating of transverse fractures
- Surgical approach to the tibia
- Lag screw and neutralisation plating of long oblique fractures
- Surgical approach to the femur
- Plate-rod fixation of comminuted fractures
- Collection of autogenous cancellous bone graft
Please find Registration & more information at www.vetcommunity.com.au
Meet the Speakers:
Dr Lucas Beierer
BVSc GradDipEd MVetSurg DACVS-SA Registered Specialist in Small Animal Surgery
Dr Chris Tan
BVSc BSc(Vet) PhD FANZCVS Diplomate ECVS (Small Animal Surgery)
Dr Mark Newman
BVSc MVS MANZCVS DipECVS
