It is an often-carried assumption that in young children the capacities of fracture healing and subsequent remodelling are such that complications are uncommon. And yet, the subject of non-union and malunion is well established for children’s fractures. We associate these complications to specific fractures and with older children but there are common threads which link non-unions in children to those that occur in older adolescents and even adults. In addition to exposing these common elements, specific fracture problems will be covered, from the common (lateral condyle and supracondylar) to the less common (femoral neck).

This ICL will provide the Orthopaedic surgeon who deals with children’s fractures important pointers for avoiding these complications and, when faced with them, how best to solve them.

Aim:

1. To develop an awareness of elements that lead to nonunions in children’s fractures
2. To learn of treatment strategies for some uncommon and common nonunions
3. To revisit the indications for treating malunions in some children’s fractures

Target Audience

Any Orthopaedic surgeon dealing with simple and complex children’s fractures and their complications

Program:

Hall	Time	Topic	Watch Video
HALL C (POSNA HALL)	10:00 - 10:15	Non-unions in children's limb fractures - Common causes and how to avoid them : Dr. Durai Nayagam	View
HALL C (POSNA HALL)	10:15 - 10:30	Non-union of femoral neck fractures : Dr. Sandeep Patwardhan	View
HALL C (POSNA HALL)	10:30 - 10:45	Non-union of lateral condyle fractures of the humerus : Dr. John Mukhopadhaya	View
HALL C (POSNA HALL)	10:45 - 11:00	Malunion of the supracondylar fracture of the humerus – Boundaries of acceptability and techniques for correction : Dr. Peter Waters	View
HALL C (POSNA HALL)	11:00 - 11:30	CASE-BASED PRESENTATIONS	View
HALL C (POSNA HALL)	11:00 - 11:10	Intra articular / Physeal Malunion lower femur : Dr. Sandeep Patwardhan
HALL C (POSNA HALL)	11:10 - 11:20	Cozen’s phenomenon in the tibia : Dr. John Mukhopadhaya
HALL C (POSNA HALL)	11:20 - 11:30	Diaphyseal fracture malunion of forearm fractures : Dr. Peter Waters

Team POSICON 2019 thanks Dr. Ashok Shyam / Orthotv for Video editing and uploading.