The PULPe have assembled an experienced faculty to discuss the management of nerve injuries in supracondylar fractures at school-age (4 to 10 yrs. of age). Topics will include a review of relevant literature, diagnostics, indications and a time-table for early and late surgical treatment after nerve damage with a focus on the ulnar nerve. 

Programme

Nerve injuries in supracondylar humerus fractures at school-age (4 to 10 yrs. of age)

with a focus on the ulnar nerve

1. Introduction   –  Wiebke Hülsemann
2. Review of the literature: incidence, timing of intervention, prediction  –  Emilie Bougie
3. Diagnostics in schoolchildren (4 to 10-yrs. age)   –  Sebastian Böttcher
4. Early surgical treatment in the first 6 months after trauma: indication and time frame  –  Richarda Böttcher 
5. Late therapy of ulnaris lesions, indication and time frame  – Leila Harhaus
6. Q&A  –  Emilie and Wiebke

Moderator: Wiebke Hülsemann MD

• General, Trauma and Hand Surgeon
• Former Head of the Hand Surgery Department, Children’s Hospital Wilhelmstift, Hamburg, Germany

Speakers: 

Emilie Bougie MD

• Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgeon
• Senior Consultant in division of plastic and reconstructive surgery
• Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine for Children
• Assistant professor
• Division of plastic and reconstructive surgery, University of Montreal, Canada

Sebastian Böttcher MD

• Neurologist
• Senior Consultant of Clinic for Neurology with Stroke Unit and Early Rehabilitation,
• BG Klinikum Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin, Germany

Richarda Böttcher MD

• General and Hand Surgeon
• Senior Consultant of the Department for Hand-, Replantation- and Microsurgery,
• Head of the centre of reconstructive surgery for plexus palsy, tetraplegia and cerebral palsy, BG Klinikum Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin, Germany

Leila Harhaus MD, PhD

• Plastic Surgeon, Hand Surgeon
• New Director of the Department for Hand-, Replantation- and Microsurgery, BG Klinikum Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
• Before: Director of Dpt. of Hand-, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Burn
• Center, BG – Trauma Hospital Ludwigshafen

The webinar will be valuable to residents/trainees, therapists and seasoned surgeons who will all gain from the breadth of the program.
There will be ample time for Q and A.
Registration starts in September 2024
The session is planned to be recorded

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