The evolution of knowledge associated with the closure of many local hospitals, with consequent loss of skills, is generating a phenomenon of centralization of children's skeletal injuries towards dedicated hospitals. Sardinia, unlike other Italian regions, does not have a real "Children Hospital", i.e. a structure entirely dedicated to the care and care of children .
The Arnas Brotzu of Cagliari, which currently concentrates many professionals in the pediatric field, has also become a reference for child traumatology. In 2023, around a hundred children underwent surgery for fractures, while a few thousand underwent conservative treatment . Precisely to share knowledge on pediatric traumatology, the director of the Brotzu Orthopedics and Traumatology Complex Structure, Giuseppe Dessì , with the scientific support of Valeria Setzu and Emanuele Cabras , organized two training events dedicated to the development and sharing of knowledge on traumatology pediatric.
Tomorrow from 10.30, at the headquarters of the Italian Red Cross of Cagliari in via Merello, a first event entitled "Conservative treatments and orthoses in pediatric traumatology" aimed at specialists and general pediatricians, as well as other specialists and healthcare workers. «We will focus», we read in a press release, «on the care of the patient in developmental age focused on the management of non-surgical fractures, which represent the majority of trauma cases in children due to the particular characteristics of the evolving bone and that all trauma surgeons should be able to manage even on the outskirts."
Saturday, in the "Atza" room of the Brotzu, from 8.30 am, course aimed at orthopaedists, physiatrists, anesthetists, paediatricians, radiologists and area healthcare workers, dedicated instead to the surgical treatment of skeletal lesions entitled "Updates in pediatric orthopedics and traumatology" . «We will focus», explains the note, «on the classification, diagnosis, management and treatment of skeletal lesions of the various body segments, both traumatic and pathological, without neglecting the problem of non-accidental traumas (abuse) and the criteria for centralizing the lesions for the treatment. There will also be a focus on emergencies and major emergencies, with particular regard to the pediatric population segment to increase risk awareness, knowledge of the operational organization and management culture of catastrophic events".
Pediatric orthopedic specialists from the peninsula will participate in the event as speakers, such as Maurizio De Pellegrin (Milan, former head of pediatric orthopedics at San Raffaele), Silvio Boero (formerly head of pediatric orthopedics at Gaslini in Genoa), Alessandro Aprato (director of the Pediatric Orthopedics of Turin), Nunzio Catena (director of Pediatric Microsurgery of the Gaslini of Genoa) and Maria Silvia Spinel them ( researcher at the Gaetano Pini Higher Institute of Health and Orthopedic Oncology in Milan), as well as all the specialists from Sardinia.
(Unioneonline)
