Complex Lower Limb Fracture Cadaveric Course
23rd and 24th January 2025,
UHCW, Coventry

We are pleased to announce our complex lower limb cadaveric course on 23 and 24 January 2025. The course takes place in the prestigious West Midlands Surgical Training Centre, one of a small number of dedicated Surgical Training centres in the UK, with 8 fully equipped surgical stations to reproduce an exact clinical environment. Student Ratio 2:1

Delegates will work on the cadavers in pairs, with one consultant dedicated to each pair, allowing ample time for discussion, questions and detailed demonstrations. Full instructional material will be provided to delegates

Facilities include a 30-seat lecture theatre/common room, changing facilities, decontamination, tissue storage, C-Arm, power tools, microscopes and a very comprehensive range of surgical instrumentation and consumables.

The course is aimed at senior orthopaedic trainees and consultants who manage adult trauma and is limited to 16 places.

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Meeting Highlights

  • Open reduction and internal fixation of intracapsular femoral neck fractures
  • Lateral position femoral nailing and plating for subtrochanteric fractures
  • Nail and plate fixation of distal femoral fractures
  • Open reduction and internal fixation of complex tibial plateau, pilon and talar fractures.

Faculty

Sunit Patil

Mr Sunit Patil is a consultant orthopaedic trauma surgeon at University Hospitals…

…Coventry and Warwickshire. He trained in the Northern Deanery and undertook trauma fellowships at Edinburgh and Toronto. His clinical interests include pelvic and acetabular fractures, polytrauma, peri-articular fractures and chest trauma. He is also the lead for musculoskeletal sciences at Warwick University for the MBChB course.

John McArthur

After graduating from the University of Birmingham I trained on the West…

…Midlands basic surgical training programme and the Warwick higher surgical training program in orthopaedics. During this time I obtained an MSc from the University of Warwick.
I undertook fellowship training in trauma, pelvic and acetabular reconstruction and lower limb arthroplasty at Frenchay Hospital and the Avon Orthopaedic Centre. I was appointed as a consultant at UHCW in 2014. I am the clinical lead for orthopaedic trauma and organise the fellowship programme in complex trauma.

 

Mateen Arastu

Mateen Arastu undertook his orthopaedic training on the South West Thames…

…rotation in London and was appointed as a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire in 2014.

His main clinical interests are in the management of complex adult trauma patients with multiple injuries including rib fracture fixation and non-union surgery and also performs lower limb arthroplasty surgery.

He graduated from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London and completed a Masters in Orthopaedic Engineering at Cardiff University with distinction.

He has completed his trauma fellowship training at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Canada in 2010/11. He has worked during this year with Professor Rick Buckley and has a specialist interest in the treatment of calcaneal fractures. He has also worked as a consultant trauma surgeon at Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham

 

Darryl Ramoutar

Darryl Ramoutar has been a consultant at University Hospital Coventry…

…and Warwickshire since 2017. His main specialist interest is complex trauma surgery, including periarticular fractures, polytrauma and non-unions. He also has an interest in knee surgery (arthroplasty/soft tissue reconstruction).

He completed his medical training at the University of Cambridge in 2006 and moved to Nottingham for his orthopaedic training, which he completed in 2016. During this time he was awarded two travelling fellowships including the prestigious BOA travelling fellowship, and visited trauma centres in Toronto, Baltimore (Shock Trauma) and Boston. He also completed an MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering at Cardiff University in 2014. He has subsequently undertaken fellowships in orthopaedic trauma at Vancouver General Hospital, and knee surgery at the Royal Derby Hospital.

Darryl has an active interest in research and has been involved in several clinical and lab-based projects which have been both published and presented at national/international meetings. He has also completed several quality improvement projects including optimising fracture clinic services, as well as improving non-operative cast management of distal radius fractures. He participates regularly in teaching, and is an AO and ATLS instructor.

Outside of medicine his interests are travelling with his family, and sports such as football, basketball and cricket.

 

Farhan Syed

Farhan is an orthopaedic surgeon with a specialist interest in hip and knee…

…reconstruction and complex trauma. His NHS practice at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire involves managing both patients with high energy life changing injuries and patients with established hip and knee arthritis.

Farhan qualified in 2007 in Hyderabad, India, and continued his post-graduate training in orthopaedic surgery in the same city. Seeking career advancement, he relocated to the UK in 2012. In 2017, he obtained his FRCS(Tr & Orth) and then pursued further specialist fellowship training in trauma (at UHCW – major trauma centre) and high volume lower limb joint replacement surgery (hip and knee) at Warwick Hospital.

Farhan has a strong background in research, with involvement in audits and large multicentre randomised control trials. He has presented his research findings at conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals. https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Wvod3Y8AAAAJ

Farhan enjoys teaching and is an educational/clinical supervisor for trainees at different career stages. A testament to his high-quality teaching was being voted “Trainer of the Year” by Warwick trainees in 2022. Additionally, he organises educational meetings to enhance postgraduate doctors’ training and is involved in teaching of phase 3 students at Warwick Medical School. His local service improvement projects encompass setting up a virtual fracture clinic service, and optimising patient pathways in arthroplasty during his fellowship at Warwick Hospital.

 

Xavier Griffin

Professor Xavier Griffin is a leading Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic…

…Surgery and Centre Lead for Bone and Joint Health at Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health.
Driven by a commitment to improving patient care, his research focuses on the clinical and cost effectiveness of new and existing treatments to advance bone and joint health. He has secured more than £45 million in research funding, alongside over 120 peer-reviewed publications and his work has been cited by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. He is passionate about developing innovative methodologies that harness the power of routinely collected data while combining this with the rigour of randomisation.

His vision is to make a step change in musculoskeletal research and care here in Northeast London and with colleagues across the world.

Outside of work he can be found mountain biking or rock climbing usually with his young sons in tow!

Mez Acharya

Mez studied at The University of Leeds Medical School and attained a first…
… class honours degree in Anatomy in 1995.  His higher surgical training was completed on the South Trent rotation.  He spent one year in Bristol, subspecialising in pelvic and acetabular trauma/complex trauma and spent a further year in Perth, Western Australia, specialising in complex hip and knee arthroplasty and revision arthroplasty.

He took up a consultant post at Frenchay and the Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Southmead in Bristol as an Orthopaedic Surgeon with a special interest in orthopaedic trauma and lower limb joint replacement, in particular pelvic reconstruction, complex trauma, hip and knee replacement and revision hip surgery.  He is keen to individualise treatment for each patient and offer both operative and non-operative treatment modalities and is

currently the Audit lead for the Orthopaedic and Trauma Department at North Bristol.

 

Will Eardley

Will Eardley is an academic orthopaedic surgeon. He has a specialist interest…

… in orthopaedic trauma surgery and the management of post-traumatic complications including fracture fixation failure, nonunion, deformity and osteomyelitis. Will trained in surgery throughout Northern England and completed his education with a year of fellowship experience before being appointed as Consultant Surgeon to the South Tees Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust in 2014.

Having left the British Army in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel after nineteen years of service, Will has worked in an operational capacity in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. Will has an acknowledged reputation in orthopaedic trauma research, publishing numerous papers, letters and book chapters.

He completed a master’s degree investigating fracture distribution in Road Traffic Accidents. He has also completed a formal period of study at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, successfully defending his thesis to be awarded Doctor of Medicine. He is research active and is co-applicant on several NIHR funded research trials.

In his NHS practice, Mr Eardley consults on acute and chronic trauma management, with a range of patients under his care for significant limb injuries. Post traumatic deformity, fixation failure, nonunion and infection account for the bulk of his clinical work.

Will holds several senior positions of responsibility within United Kingdom Orthopaedic Trauma :

Vice-Chair British Orthopaedic Association Trauma Committee

Vice-Chair Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Speciality Board. Orthopaedic Clinical Lead, National Hip Fracture Database of England and Wales.

National Major Trauma Registry Audit Orthopaedic representative

 

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Intracapsular femoral neck fractures...

The event highlights open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) of intracapsular femoral neck fractures…

…a procedure to realign and stabilize fractures within the hip joint capsule. ORIF is crucial for preserving joint function, especially in younger patients, promoting healing and mobility by securing bone fragments with specialized hardware

Nail and plate fixation of DF fractures...

A key feature of the event is nail and plate fixation of distal femoral fractures, a technique for stabilizing fractures near the knee.

This method secures the bone with nails and plates, promoting proper alignment and healing. It is essential for restoring leg function, especially in complex fractures.

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Thursday 23rd January

08.15

Registration & Coffee

08.30

Introduction to the West Midlands Surgical Training Centre – Mr. Sunit Patil, Mr. Simon Ford

Session 1: 09.00 – 10:30

09:00

STATION A: X Ray Control: Group A: Lateral position femoral nailing – Faculty: Mr. Sunit Patil, Mr. Darryl Ramoutar

STATION B: Group B: Trochanteric flip osteotomy – Faculty: Prof Xavier Griffin and Mr. Mateen Arastu

STATION C: Group C: ORIF for intracapsular NOF – Faculty: Professor Mez Acharya and Mr. Farhan Syed

STATION D: Group D: Unusual cases with unusual solutions – Faculty: Mr. Will Eardley and Mr. John McArthur

Session 2: 10:30 – 12:00

10:30

STATION A: Group C: Lateral position femoral nailing

STATION B: Group A: Trochanteric flip osteotomy

STATION C: Group D: ORIF for intracapsular NOF

STATION D: Group B: Unusual cases with unusual solutions

12.00

Lunch

Session 3: 13:00 – 14:30

13:00

STATION A: Group D: Lateral position femoral nailing

STATION B: Group C: Trochanteric flip osteotomy

STATION C: Group B: ORIF intracapsular femoral neck fracture

STATION D: Group A: Unusual cases with unusual solutions

Session 4: 14:30 – 16:00

10:30

STATION A: Group B: Lateral position femoral nailing

STATION B: Group D: Trochanteric flip osteotomy

STATION C: Group A: ORIF for intracapsular NOF

STATION D: Group C: Unusual cases with unusual solutions

16:00

Presentation by Johnson & Johnson and feedback

16.15

Close of Day 1

18.00

Course Dinner at Coombe Abbey

Friday 24th January

08.15

Tea & Coffee

Session 1: 09.00 – 10:30

10:30

STATION A: Group A: Distal femoral nail and plate – Faculty: Mr. John Mcarthur and Professor Xavier Griffin

STATION B: Group B: Posteromedial approach to the knee – Faculty: Prof Mez Acharya

STATION C:Group C: Approaches to the talus and sinus tarsi approach to the calcaneus – Faculty: Mr. Mateen Arastu and Mr. Sunit Patil

STATION D: Group D: Posterior approaches to the ankle – Faculty: Mr. Will Eardley and Mr. Darryl Ramoutar

Session 2: 10:30 – 12:00

13:00

STATION A: Group C: Distal femoral nail and plate – Faculty: Mr. John Mcarthur and Professor Xavier Griffin

STATION B: Group A: Posteromedial approach to the knee – Faculty: Prof Mez Acharya

STATION C:Group D: Approaches to the talus and sinus tarsi approach to the calcaneus – Faculty: Mr. Mateen Arastu and Mr. Sunit Patil

STATION D: Group B: Posterior approaches to the ankle – Faculty: Mr. Will Eardley and Mr. Darryl Ramoutar

12.00

Lunch Break

Session 3: 13:00 – 14:30

13:00

STATION A: Group D: Distal femoral nail and plate – Faculty: Mr. John Mcarthur and Professor Xavier Griffin

STATION B: Group C: Posteromedial approach to the knee – Faculty: Prof Mez Acharya

STATION C: Group B: Approaches to the talus and sinus tarsi approach to the calcaneus – Faculty: Mr. Mateen Arastu and Mr. Sunit Patil

STATION D: Group A: Posterior approaches to the ankle – Faculty: Mr. Will Eardley and Mr. Darryl Ramoutar

Session 4: 14:30 – 16:00

14:30

STATION A: Group B: Distal femoral nail and plate – Faculty: Mr. John Mcarthur and Professor Xavier Griffin

STATION B: Group D: Posteromedial approach to the knee – Faculty: Prof Mez Acharya

STATION C:Group A: Approaches to the talus and sinus tarsi approach to the calcaneus – Faculty: Mr. Mateen Arastu and Mr. Sunit Patil

STATION D: Group C: Posterior approaches to the ankle – Faculty: Mr. Will Eardley and Mr. Darryl Ramoutar

16:00

Feedback and summary

16:15

Close of meeting

John McArthur

After graduating from the University of Birmingham I trained on the West…

…Midlands basic surgical training programme and the Warwick higher surgical training program in orthopaedics. During this time I obtained an MSc from the University of Warwick.
I undertook fellowship training in trauma, pelvic and acetabular reconstruction and lower limb arthroplasty at Frenchay Hospital and the Avon Orthopaedic Centre. I was appointed as a consultant at UHCW in 2014. I am the clinical lead for orthopaedic trauma and organise the fellowship programme in complex trauma.

 

Sunit Patil

Mr Sunit Patil is a consultant orthopaedic trauma surgeon at University Hospitals…

…Coventry and Warwickshire. He trained in the Northern Deanery and undertook trauma fellowships at Edinburgh and Toronto. His clinical interests include pelvic and acetabular fractures, polytrauma, peri-articular fractures and chest trauma. He is also the lead for musculoskeletal sciences at Warwick University for the MBChB course.

Mateen Arastu

Mateen Arastu undertook his orthopaedic training on the South West Thames…

…rotation in London and was appointed as a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire in 2014.

His main clinical interests are in the management of complex adult trauma patients with multiple injuries including rib fracture fixation and non-union surgery and also performs lower limb arthroplasty surgery.

He graduated from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London and completed a Masters in Orthopaedic Engineering at Cardiff University with distinction.

He has completed his trauma fellowship training at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Canada in 2010/11. He has worked during this year with Professor Rick Buckley and has a specialist interest in the treatment of calcaneal fractures. He has also worked as a consultant trauma surgeon at Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham

 

Darryl Ramoutar

Darryl Ramoutar has been a consultant at University Hospital Coventry…

…and Warwickshire since 2017. His main specialist interest is complex trauma surgery, including periarticular fractures, polytrauma and non-unions. He also has an interest in knee surgery (arthroplasty/soft tissue reconstruction).

He completed his medical training at the University of Cambridge in 2006 and moved to Nottingham for his orthopaedic training, which he completed in 2016. During this time he was awarded two travelling fellowships including the prestigious BOA travelling fellowship, and visited trauma centres in Toronto, Baltimore (Shock Trauma) and Boston. He also completed an MSc in Orthopaedic Engineering at Cardiff University in 2014. He has subsequently undertaken fellowships in orthopaedic trauma at Vancouver General Hospital, and knee surgery at the Royal Derby Hospital.

Darryl has an active interest in research and has been involved in several clinical and lab-based projects which have been both published and presented at national/international meetings. He has also completed several quality improvement projects including optimising fracture clinic services, as well as improving non-operative cast management of distal radius fractures. He participates regularly in teaching, and is an AO and ATLS instructor.

Outside of medicine his interests are travelling with his family, and sports such as football, basketball and cricket.

 

Farhan Syed

Farhan is an orthopaedic surgeon with a specialist interest in hip and knee…

…reconstruction and complex trauma. His NHS practice at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire involves managing both patients with high energy life changing injuries and patients with established hip and knee arthritis.

Farhan qualified in 2007 in Hyderabad, India, and continued his post-graduate training in orthopaedic surgery in the same city. Seeking career advancement, he relocated to the UK in 2012. In 2017, he obtained his FRCS(Tr & Orth) and then pursued further specialist fellowship training in trauma (at UHCW – major trauma centre) and high volume lower limb joint replacement surgery (hip and knee) at Warwick Hospital.

Farhan has a strong background in research, with involvement in audits and large multicentre randomised control trials. He has presented his research findings at conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals. https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Wvod3Y8AAAAJ

Farhan enjoys teaching and is an educational/clinical supervisor for trainees at different career stages. A testament to his high-quality teaching was being voted “Trainer of the Year” by Warwick trainees in 2022. Additionally, he organises educational meetings to enhance postgraduate doctors’ training and is involved in teaching of phase 3 students at Warwick Medical School. His local service improvement projects encompass setting up a virtual fracture clinic service, and optimising patient pathways in arthroplasty during his fellowship at Warwick Hospital.

 

Xavier Griffin

Professor Xavier Griffin is a leading Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic…

…Surgery and Centre Lead for Bone and Joint Health at Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health.
Driven by a commitment to improving patient care, his research focuses on the clinical and cost effectiveness of new and existing treatments to advance bone and joint health. He has secured more than £45 million in research funding, alongside over 120 peer-reviewed publications and his work has been cited by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. He is passionate about developing innovative methodologies that harness the power of routinely collected data while combining this with the rigour of randomisation.

His vision is to make a step change in musculoskeletal research and care here in Northeast London and with colleagues across the world.

Outside of work he can be found mountain biking or rock climbing usually with his young sons in tow!

Mez Acharya

Mez studied at The University of Leeds Medical School and attained a first…
… class honours degree in Anatomy in 1995.  His higher surgical training was completed on the South Trent rotation.  He spent one year in Bristol, subspecialising in pelvic and acetabular trauma/complex trauma and spent a further year in Perth, Western Australia, specialising in complex hip and knee arthroplasty and revision arthroplasty.

He took up a consultant post at Frenchay and the Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Southmead in Bristol as an Orthopaedic Surgeon with a special interest in orthopaedic trauma and lower limb joint replacement, in particular pelvic reconstruction, complex trauma, hip and knee replacement and revision hip surgery.  He is keen to individualise treatment for each patient and offer both operative and non-operative treatment modalities and is

currently the Audit lead for the Orthopaedic and Trauma Department at North Bristol.

 

Will Eardley

Will Eardley is an academic orthopaedic surgeon. He has a specialist interest…

… in orthopaedic trauma surgery and the management of post-traumatic complications including fracture fixation failure, nonunion, deformity and osteomyelitis. Will trained in surgery throughout Northern England and completed his education with a year of fellowship experience before being appointed as Consultant Surgeon to the South Tees Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust in 2014.

Having left the British Army in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel after nineteen years of service, Will has worked in an operational capacity in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. Will has an acknowledged reputation in orthopaedic trauma research, publishing numerous papers, letters and book chapters.

He completed a master’s degree investigating fracture distribution in Road Traffic Accidents. He has also completed a formal period of study at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, successfully defending his thesis to be awarded Doctor of Medicine. He is research active and is co-applicant on several NIHR funded research trials.

In his NHS practice, Mr Eardley consults on acute and chronic trauma management, with a range of patients under his care for significant limb injuries. Post traumatic deformity, fixation failure, nonunion and infection account for the bulk of his clinical work.

Will holds several senior positions of responsibility within United Kingdom Orthopaedic Trauma :

Vice-Chair British Orthopaedic Association Trauma Committee

Vice-Chair Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Speciality Board. Orthopaedic Clinical Lead, National Hip Fracture Database of England and Wales.

National Major Trauma Registry Audit Orthopaedic representative

 

University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire

The surgical skills lab is on the University Hospital Coventry and Warwick site, the full address is:

University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire
Clifford Bridge Road
Coventry
CV2 2DX

Parking is available on the University Hospitals site however charges will apply, 24 hours costs £13.10.

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Venue Highlights

The West Midlands Surgical Training Centre is one of a small number of dedicated Surgical Training centres in the UK, with 8 fully equipped surgical stations to reproduce an exact clinical environment.

Facilities include a 30-seat lecture theatre/common room, changing facilities, decontamination, tissue storage, C-Arm, power tools, microscopes and a very comprehensive range of surgical instrumentation and consumables.

We are licenced by the HTA (Human Tissue Act) and accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons of UK and Ireland.

We pride ourselves in providing surgical knowledge to support training and we wish to partner with providers to deliver world class surgical training.

Venue Location

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Postcode for the venue is CV2 2DX

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