CME Course

AAOS Wrist Injuries: State of the Art

Registration Fees:

Members, Resident/Post Residency Fellow, Nonmembers, Emeritus

Course #: 3806 Apr 23 - 24, 2010 07:00AM - 05:00PM Rosemont, IL Directions to the OLC, Rosemont, IL Maximum Enrollment: 96	A credit card number is required for payment. Registration is not complete until you receive a confirmation number after payment.
Course Directors: Leon S Benson, MD; Pedro K Beredjiklian, MD CME Credit: 18.75 Please Note: Course participants are required to submit a completed evaluation in order to receive CME Credits.

Participation Requirement:

Participants in Academy surgical skills programs must have completed or be currently enrolled in a residency program accredited by either the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). Surgeons from outside of the United States are required to have similar residency program credentials.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons designates this educational activity for a maximum of 18.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This intensive surgical skills course brings you up-to-date on the recent advances in evaluating and treating wrist injuries. Through hands-on training, panel discussions, lectures, and video, you will explore new techniques and surgical approaches to apply to your cases – giving patients early motion, accelerated rehabilitation, and faster return of function.

The surgical skills lab will include a wide variety of distal radius fracture implants so you can compare products from multiple manufacturers. There will be real cases presentations in which faculty had trouble as well as a panel where you get to challenge the faculty!

This course is designed to give you the knowledge and skills to:

• Apply technical skills in a wide variety of fixation options for treatment of distal radius fractures
• Identify indications and contraindications for volar, dorsal and combination plating techniques for distal radius fractures
• Identify and explain the relevance and function of the intercarpal ligaments, including the radioscaphocapitate, the long and short radiolunate, the scapholunate, and lunatotriquetral ligaments
• Apply the technical skills for antegrade and retrograde scaphoid fixation.
• Analyze and classify the types and the treatment of DRUJ and distal ulna injuries.
• Demonstrate the options for treatment of select complications of wrist injuries.
• Formulate an algorithm for the post operative management of patients with wrist injuries.
• Differentiate the treatment algorithms for distal radius and carpal fractures in the pediatric patient

Faculty:

Brian Jeffrey Bear, MD	Michael S Bednar, MD	William Bennett Geissler, MD
Thomas R Hunt, III MD	David Mark Kalainov, MD	Bruce M Leslie, MD
Daniel J Nagle, MD	Craig S Phillips, MD	Tamara D Rozental, MD
Craig S Williams, MD	David Steven Zelouf, MD
Please note: Course content and faculty are subject to change.

DO NOT make your travel reservations until you have received written confirmation of your Course Registration.

Course Location/Housing:

Hyatt Rosemont
6350 N. River Road
Rosemont, IL 60018
Hotel Phone Number: 1-847-518-1234
Hotel Fax Number: 1-847-518-0855
Rates: $152
Housing cut-off date: March-29-2010
You can make your housing reservations online
The Group/Corporate # for this course is G-AA90

If the room block fills prior to the deadline, the hotel cannot guarantee availability and/or the special AAOS rate.

Discount Airfare/Car Rental:

Call CorpTrav Management Group toll-free (800) 211-8016, or United Airlines at (800) 521-4041, to receive special discounts for the following carriers: United, Ted, US Air, Air Canada, Lufthansa - Reference# 549KD

For discount car rental, call Hertz Rent-a-car (800-654-2240) (www.hertz.com) - Reference CV# 02KS0015

Individuals traveling from outside the US and Canada will need to contact a travel agency or the airlines directly within their country.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has appointed CorpTrav Management Group as the official air travel coordinator. To book your air travel online, please review the Housing and Air Travel Information.

Request for a refund must be received in writing in the Academy Office (AAOS, 6300 North River Road, Rosemont, IL 60018-4262) by April-16-2010. In all instances a cancellation fee will be charged. Beyond these dates, no monetary refunds will be issued. Instead, the tuition amount, less cancellation fee, will be credited toward another AAOS course within one year.

The Academy reserves the right to cancel a course thirty (30) days prior to the course date. Any person who has registered for the course will be notified by email and/or certified mail at the address noted in the AAOS member database. A telephone call will also be made to each registrant for whom a number is available. Persons whose registration is received after a course is cancelled will be notified by telephone, email or mail. Registration fees will be refunded in full. However, other costs incurred by the registrant, such as airline or hotel penalties are the responsibility of the registrant.

For additional information or to register, contact Customer Service at 1 (800) 626-6726 (US and Canada) or 1-847-823-7186 for outside US and Canada Monday - Friday 8AM - 5PM CST or email custserv@aaos.org.