New techniques and treatments for patients with fractures of humerus and femur proximal. osteoporóticas
-expert in Traumatology gathered on a day to improve the training of doctors in a disease with high prevalence among the population at risk
-the meeting was coordinated by Dr. Ismael Escribá, Chief of Traumatology unit service and took place at Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe of Valenciaon Friday, November 25
Valencia, December of 2011- November 25, Hospital Universitari i Politécnic La Fe of Valencia, hosted the workshop on fractures Osteoporóticas, aimed at occupational health.
This meeting had been coordinated by the doctor in Ismael Escribá, Chief of service of the unity of Traumatology of the hospital run by the doctors D. Mariano Barrés and D. José Ferrer and Valencian. The day was developed at an intensive day and spanned two modules: 1. Proximal femur and 2. Proximal humerus.
These days have been aimed at dealing with the study and analysis of the latest techniques in the treatment of proximal osteoporóticas of hip and humerus fractures.
The completion of the course is based in response to the increase in the number of patients affected by periprotésicas fractures in the last decade. This is conditioned by the increase in the population at risk, which makes it necessary to update health care professionals in terms of new techniques, advances in diagnosis and treatment of them.
The methodology of the day consisted of exposure of the themes and possible medical complications arising.
The program included the presentation of 10 clinical cases submitted by doctors at the Hospital Universitario de Valencia, of the Hospital Lluis AlcanyÃs of Xátiva, the Hospital of Dénia Marina Health Hospital our Lady of the Alcoy LÃrios in Alicante, Hospital Comarcal de Orihuela Vega Baja, and the Consortium Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Hospital General of Elda Virgin of health of Alicante and Elche in Alicante University General Hospital.
Specialists in internal medicine, Traumatology and rehabilitation, participated in the different presentations that form the scientific programme. Among them, said doctor Swiss Norbert Suhm hospital Basel, which based their exhibition in the treatment of the elderly patient strategy ”.
These days have had intended to, improve the training of doctors in a disease that causes 1.6 million hip fractures per year, worldwide.
These encounters are desarrollaronn in collaboration with the companies Synthes and Lilly.
