King’s IM Nailing Symposium June 3/4th 2019

Mon, 3 Jun 2019 – Tue, 4 Jun 2019 Welcome back for the next episode of the King’s Im Nailing Symposium. This year the symposium will cover a two-day instructional and advanced meeting for IM Nailing, in trauma and limb reconstruction. Our faculty will include Prof. Heather Vallier from the USA (President Elect of the …

Speciality Training Committee Meeting Report – March 2019

19th March 2019 Arman & I met with the STC to report back from a trainees perspective on current issues (positive and negative) within the training program.  We asked all trainees to complete the trainee survey in order to help guide this conversation and also asked for trainees to contact us directly with any issues, …

CTOC- only 9 weeks to go! Get your study leave requests in!

There are now only 9 weeks left to the 2019 Cambridge Trauma and Orthopaedic Club meeting on the 29th March 2019. Don’t miss the study leave deadline, which is fast approaching (only one week left to apply!). The meeting is held at Clare College, Cambridge and is free to attend; there is a great set …

NATIONAL AUDIT

Fancy helping with a national audit? In association with the North West Orthopaedic Research Collaborative, we are looking to recruit volunteers across the country to participate in a national audit of peri-operative tranexamic acid (TXA) use in surgery for neck of femur fractures. The current evidence base suggests that administration of TXA to patients undergoing …