More than one hundred Traumatologists and orthopedic surgeons of the Valencian Community will gather in Torrevieja.

-the meeting will be oriented to the boarding and update of issues relating to the treatment of the main joints trauma, with presentations by professionals of recognized prestige in this area

-the Congress will bring together three round tables dedicated to the approach and treatment interventions for shoulder, hand and foot

Torrevieja, 2012-March 18th and 19th of March the Torrevieja town will host the Edition number 40 of the Congress of the society of Traumatology and orthopaedic surgery of the Valencian Community. The President of Congress, and surgical Director of the Torrevieja Health Department, Dr. José Antonio Velasco, expected to gather more than 100 specialists from the Valencian Community, as well as professionals from nearby provinces, in this event which will take place in a torrevejense hotel.

The Congress will showcase three round tables dedicated to the approach and interventions of shoulder, hand and foot treatment. In them, it will deepen about the pathology of traumatic and orthopedic, linking this material with current prosthetic of these articulations surgery.

Dr. Velasco pointed out that this is from a unique opportunity to exchange experiences with professionals and partners, as well as attend keynote presentations by specialists of international reputation in the specialty of orthopaedic and traumatologic surgery ”.

Among the topics to be dealt with is the surgery artroplástica of shoulder, a technical pioneer that requires the coordinated work of medical professionals and nurses that make both the intervention and the subsequent recovery of the patient, can take place under conditions of safety and excellence. In this way, the patient which is subjected to an intervention of total shoulder prosthesis is prepared prior to the intervention on the unit of surgery without income, where he works a team of nursing expert in their care.

In this line, Dr. Velasco and the nurse of the unit of surgery without income, Doña Beatriz Orejana, address interventions of prosthesis reverse shoulder by CMA, as a point of reference in this joint operations.

It should be recalled that Torrevieja Hospital is the only hospital, globally, making interventions of surgery prosthetic reverse shoulder through most ambulatory surgery, hence the interest generated by this technique for other surgeons and professionals of the international surgical context.

The programme will bring together guests from national centres as Hospital San Rafael de Barcelona, Hospital Clínico Universitario of Valencia Hospital of the Vinalopó in Elche, Hospital La Fe de Valencia. Thus, the plenary also host teacher beloved of the University Fernando Pessoa of Porto, the Dr. Marc García Elías-Cos of the Kaplan Institute of Barcelona or the prestigious specialist Gilles Walch of Lyon, among others.

The society of Traumatology and orthopaedic surgery of the Valencian Community, founded over twenty-five years ago, he has an exceptional career and recognition by clinicians, hence the importance for the Hospital in Torrevieja to occupy a central role in the Organization of the meeting.

The Congress brings together all the information on its website, with the complete program of the meeting, registration process and presentation of scientific papers from all interested specialists.