AO ASIF Nursing Continuing Education Presents:

Team Approach to Fracture Management
Advanced and IM Nailing/External Fixation Courses for Operating Room Personnel
May 30 - 31, 2003 Chateau on the Lake
Branson, Missouri

CO-CHAIRMEN

Jeffrey O. Anglen, MD University of Missouri Health Sciences Center Columbia, MO	Robert Mahnken, MD St. John's Regional Medical Center Springfield, MO
Joseph Borrelli, MD Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO	Kevin Mosier, MD Southeast Kansas Orthopaedic Clinic Parsons, KS

The Faculty of this Course is composed of orthopaedic surgeons and operating room nurses distinguished in caring for the orthopaedic trauma patient.

FACULTY

Lois Suhrie, RN BSN
AO ASIF Nursing Continuing Education
West Chester, PA

GOAL

The goal of these courses is to provide an educational opportunity for operating room personnel who participate in the care of the orthopaedic trauma patient. Course topics will be presented utilizing a dynamic combination of lectures and hands-on practical sessions. The practical sessions will provide the participants with the opportunity to take an active role in the fixation of artificial bone fractures under the direction of faculty lab instructors.

OBJECTIVES:

Upon completion of these courses, participants should be able to:

Advanced Course

• Review the aims and principles of AO ASIF technique
• Discuss the management of complex humeral and femoral fractures
• Differentiate between acetabular fractures and pelvic ring disruptions
• Demonstrate complex extremity, pelvic and acetabular fixation techniques

IM Nailing/External Fixation Course

• Discuss the anatomy and mechanisms of injury of long bones
• Describe the functions of IM nails and external fixation devices
• Describe the management of midshaft long bone fractures
• Relate the principles of patient positioning for IM nailing

These Operating Room Personnel Courses are educational non-profit functions made possible through the support of and cooperation with the AO ASIF. Financial and technical support provided by Synthes.

ACCREDITATION

AO North America Foundation is accredited as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This recognition does not imply that the AO North America Foundation or the ANCC Commission on Accreditation approves or endorses any product included in the activity.

The Advanced Course has been awarded 16.5 Contact Hours for Registered Nurses and 13 Category 3 CE's for Surgical Technologists. The IM/ Ex Fix Course has been awarded 15 Contact Hours for Registered Nurses and 12 Category 1 CE's for Surgical Technologists

TUITION

SCHEDULE

Friday, May 30, 2003

7:00am - 8:00am	Registration
8:00am - 5:00pm	Program
5:00pm - 6:00pm	Reception

Saturday, May 31, 2003

8:00am - 4:30pm

Program

COURSE LOCATION

Chateau on the Lake
415 North State Highway 265
Branson, Missouri 56516
(417) 334-1161
Fax: (417) 332-1045

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Chateau on the Lake. The room rate of $149.00 single/double occupancy, plus tax, will be held until May 14, 2003. Please call the hotel directly to secure your accommodations. Be certain to identify yourself as a participant of the AO ASIF course.

REGISTRATION FORM

Please do not consider yourself registered for this course until written confirmation is received.

Registration deadline: May 23, 2003.

You have the option to register online or submit the registration form to the address listed below.

AO ASIF Nursing Continuing Education
RE: Branson ORP Course
1301 Goshen Parkway
West Chester, PA 19380
(800) 535-2369 (press 6)
Fax: (610) 719-6532

Click here for the Registration Form