Medicine and Surgery

Programma in inglese: General information and diagnostic classification of fractures. General information on the biology of bone tissue and fracture healing methods. Types of diagnostic imaging and their applications and interpretation in fractures and dislocations. Clinical objectivity of fractures. Emergency treatment and damage control in fractures. Conservative treatment of fractures. Surgical treatment of fractures. General information on orthopedic synthesis devices and joint prostheses. General and local fractures complications: immediate, early and late complications of fractures. Distortions: diagnostic framework, clinical objectivity and treatment. Dislocations: general information and diagnostic framework. Clinical objectivity of dislocations. Shoulder dislocations: classification, diagnosis and treatment. Elbow dislocations: classification, diagnosis and treatment. Acromioclavicular dislocations: classification, diagnosis and treatment. Knee dislocations: classification, diagnosis and treatment. Hip dislocations: classification, diagnosis and treatment. Dislocations of the phalanges: classification, diagnosis and treatment. Complications of dislocations. Subcutaneous tendon ruptures: general information, diagnostic framework and treatment. Open fractures: diagnostic framework, classification, emergency treatment, damage control and external fixation, definitive treatment, medical therapy. Fractures of the pelvis and acetabulum. - Libro consigliato: Postacchini, Ippolito, Ferretti – Ortopedia e Traumatologia, 4ª ed.