Join us on out webinar on the principles of replantation with cases discussions.
Learning objectives
- Relevant anatomy for digital replantation
- The importance of the mechanism of injury
- A safe method of transportation of the amputate
- Decision making – when to say yes and when to say no
- The surgical sequence for replanting a digit
- The range of outcomes and rehabilitation of the patient
SPEAKERS:
Mr Ian Grant
Ian Grant is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge (a level 1 major trauma centre). His work includes limb reconstruction, peripheral nerve surgery, and congenital hand surgery. He trained in medicine at Oxford University, and in plastic / hand surgery at Mount Vernon, East Grinstead, Melbourne, and Leeds. He has previously been elected to the council of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He is actively involved publication, journal review, and in the teaching of hand surgery
Miss Tereze Laing
Miss Tereze Laing completed the British Diploma in Hand Surgery and the European Diploma in Hand Surgery in 2014. She has trained in many renowned plastic surgery units in Ireland and across the UK, and completed a hand fellowship at St Andrew hospital in Chelmsford. She has presented and published on a wide range of hand and plastic surgery subjects. Miss Laing joined Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge as a Hand and Plastic Surgery Consultant in 2016 was Specialty Lead from 2020-2022 and currently lead of the Hand Service.
Prof. Raja Sabapathy
Professor Sabapathy is chair of the department of plastic surgery, hand and microsurgery and burns, Ganja Hospital in Coimbatore, India. He was trained in general and plastic surgery in India, in the UK at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Canniesburn Hospital Glasgow and completed a hand and microsurgery fellowship at the Christine M. Kleinert Institute in Louisville, Kentucky. He is an honorary member of two Royal Colleges of Surgeons, Glasgow and England and the BSSH.
Professor Sabapathy has been a world leader in hand and reconstructive microsurgery education. He has served as president of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India, the Indian Society for Surgery of the Hand, the Indian Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery., Currently he is the President of the Asia Pacific Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (APFSSH) and the President Elect of the International Federation of the Societies for Surgery of the Hand. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Hand Surgery (Asia Pacific).