Pediatrics
Children and adolescents present a unique challenge in trauma care because they are so different from adults. The risks to injured children and adolescents can be significantly reduced with the provision of appropriate care.
Contacts
To address feedback or questions to this education taskforce, email the Curriculum Development Manager Michael Cunningham.
Events defined in the curriculum
AO Trauma Course—Managing Pediatric Fractures (2.5 days)
Target audiences
Pediatrics specialists early in their career
Generalists (orthopedics) spending about 20 percent of their time on trauma (including community surgeons)
Pediatrics experts
Trauma surgeons
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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?
Contacts
To address feedback or questions to this education taskforce, email the Curriculum Development Manager Michael Cunningham.
AO Trauma voices
“Our learners are constantly challenging us to be innovative and to develop more meaningful ways to share our expertise with them. This new AO Trauma pediatrics curriculum applies new learning approaches to impart the knowledge and skills they need to perform their best.”
Jonathan Dwyer, past member of the pediatrics education taskforce