AO Trauma Course—Managing Pediatric Fractures

The AO Trauma Course—Managing Pediatric Fractures aims to create a clinically centered learning environment where the current principles and techniques of fracture management in children and adolescents are demonstrated, applied, and discussed.

This course is for traumatologists, orthopedic surgeons, and other surgeons who are actively engaged in pediatric fracture care and who want to enhance their level of expertise in this field. Ideally, participants have completed the AO Trauma Course—Basic Principles of Fracture Management and must be able to communicate well in English.

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Course content

Course modules
Module 1 Fundamentals of managing pediatric fractures

Module 2 Decision making

Module 3 Lower limb: femur fractures

Module 4 Lower limb: knee injuries

Module 5 Lower limb: tibia, and ankle injuries

Module 6 Upper limb: shoulder girdle injuries and humeral fractures

Module 7 Upper limb: supracondylar fractures

Module 8 Upper limb: elbow injuries

Module 9 Upper limb: forearm and wrist fractures

Module 10 Entire lower limb

Module 11 Entire upper limb

Module 12 Complex musculoskeletal injuries in children*

Module 13 Slipped capital femoral epiphysis*

Module 14 Deformity management*

Module 15 Pathological bone (non-oncological aspects)*

Module 16 Management of bone and joint infection in children*

*Only in selected courses. Check your chosen date and location for the full program.
Practical exercises
Casting techniques and wedging

Elastic nailing in the femur: retrograde and anterograde techniques

Fixation of femur proximal metaphyseal fracture using the LCP Pediatric Hip Plate

Fixation of Salter-Harris II Epiphyseal injury of distal femur with cannulated Screws

Triplane (and Tillaux) fractures

Elastic nailing of humeral metaphyseal and shaft fractures

Humerus Supracondylar fractures

Radial condyle and medial epicondyle fractures

Elastic nailing of forearm and radial neck fractures

Proximal femoral varus osteotomy (valgus optional)*

*Only in selected courses. Check your chosen date and location for the full program.
Small Group discussions
Clinical decision making

Treating femur fractures in children and adolescents

Treating knee injuries in children of different ages

Tibial diaphysis and distal tibial fractures

Shoulder girdle and humerus

Supracondylar fractures

Elbow injuries: Lateral condyle, medial epicondyle and radial neck, and olecranon fractures

Treating forearm and wrist fractures

Pediatric lower limb injuries

Pediatric upper limb injuries

Open fractures & skeletal aspects of polytrauma in children*

Spinal trauma, pelvis & acetabular fractures, hip dislocations*

Causes and treatment of acquired deformity*

Causes and treatment of congenital deformity*

Infection*

*Only in selected courses. Check your chosen date and location for the full program.

Course details may be subject to change. Please check your chosen date and location for the detailed program.

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Target audience

Pediatrics specialists early in their career
Generalists (orthopedics) spending about 20 percent of their time on trauma (including community surgeons)
Pediatrics experts
Trauma surgeons

Course impressions

Competencies

The education taskforce has identified the following competencies for this area of practice:

Recognize that the outcome of similar injury patterns varies with a child’s age and adapt treatment accordingly
Manage relationships with patient and parents/relatives
Establish the natural history and decide on a treatment strategy
Assess the patient based on developmental status and make decisions based on available team/infrastructure
Perform the chosen treatment procedure
Perform and document short- and long-term follow-up; apply findings to decision making
Diagnose and treat septic arthritis in a timely manner
Recognize and address signs and patterns of nonaccidental injury
Diagnose and treat slipped capital femoral epiphysis
Manage acquired and congenital deformity
Manage pathological bone
Recognize and stabilize the pediatric polytrauma patient

What does competency-based curriculum development mean?

Pediatrics education taskforce

The Pediatrics education taskforce is a group of experts who build and continuously improve our educational program. It consists of three international program editors (IPEs).

See a full list of all regional program contributors and past international program editors.