AO Trauma Masters Course – Management of Hand and Wrist Fractures

The AO Surgery Reference covers a set of modules for all anatomical areas of the hand and wrist.

Each module covers the following topics:

• Clinical and radiological evaluation
• Complications and technical failures
• Fracture descriptions
• Indications and detailed treatment options
• Approaches
• Patient preparations
• Postoperative treatment  

These are further chapters relevant to hand and wrist courses:

• Basic techniques
• Compartment syndrome in the hand

The general concepts in hand and wrist entails the following chapters:

• Functional anatomy and biomechanical concepts
• Extensor tendon mechanism
• Flexor tendon mechanism
• Ligament injuries
• Digital nerve lesions
• Ulnar and median nerve lesions

• All approaches to the distal forearm
• Intraoperative imaging of the distal forearm

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• Distal forearm

• All approaches to the carpal bones
• Scapholunate dissociation
• Bone graft addition
• Complications and technical failure

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• Carpal bones

• All approaches to the thumb
• Lag-screw fixation of a Bennett fracture
• Rolando fracture

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• Thumb

• All approaches to the metacarpals
• Complications and technical failures

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• Hand – Metacarpals

• All approaches to the proximal phalanges of the hand
• Complications and technical failures

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• Hand – Proximal phalanges

• All approaches to the middle phalanges of the hand
• Dislocation of the proximal interphalangeal joint
• Hemihamate arthroplasty with osteocartilaginous graft of a multifragmentary articular base fracture
• Complications and technical failures

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• Hand – Middle phalanges

• All approaches to the distal phalanges of the hand
• Complication and technical failures

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• Hand – Distal phalanges