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Auditoria BMW 1 & 2 - Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven

5 October 2024

Joint Congress of the BOTA and BSS

Please here the preliminary programme of the BOTA Congress scheduled for the 5th of October in Leuven.
This edition will be organised on the campus UZ Gasthuisberg - K.U.Leuven.

Belgian Orthopaedic Trauma Association

The morning session for the BOTA will be organised in Auditorium BMW 1 (Biomedisch Medische Wetenschappen 1) with after lunch parallel sessions in auditoria BMW1 & BMW2. This year we will welcome our colleagues of the Belgian Spine Society for a guest session in the morning and we honored to again organise a special joined session with the A.O. ) [BOTA programme]

Belgian Spine Society

This year 's Guest session of the Belgian Spine Society will take place in the auditorium BMW2. As always our colleagues of the BSS are welcome to take part in all the other scientific sessions scheduled in parallel and in the afternoon. [BSS programme]

Preliminary Programme

Foyer of ON2

08h30

Welcome

W. Vandesande, President BOTA

Lieven Moke, President BSS

M. Herteleer, Congress president

Room BMW 1

Session 1: The severly broken ankle

09h00 - 10h00

The severely broken ankle

Moderator: F. Calier

09h00

The pilon tibial made simple

D. Putineanu

09h20

The geriatric ankle fracture: How to manage fractures with critical soft tissue in the elderly?

J. Van Meirhaege

09h40

Posttraumatich arthritis of the ankle, how do I manage it?

S. Wuite

10h00

Coffee-Break

Session 2: The Batle

10h30 - 12h00

The Battle

Moderator: D. Putineanu

Supra vs infrapatellar Nailing of Tibia fractures

M. Leliveld / W. Vandesande

Fractures of the posterior malleolus: fix it vs leave it

B. Molenaers / J. Hoogendoorn

Weber B fractures in the young adult: fix it vs cast it

M. Van Lieshout / F. Carlier

Open vs closed reduction in young patients with displaced subcapital femur fractures

W. De Weerdt / G. Putzeys

12h00

Lunch, visit to our partners

AO Session: Complex Elbow Injuries

13h30 - 15h00

AO Session: Complex Elbow injuries

Moderator: Heinz Hulsmans

13h30

Distal Intra-Articular Humeral Fractures: Strategies for Optimal Outcomes.

Inese Breide - ( Latvia )

13h55

Q & A

14h00

Rotatory instability of the elbow: mechanism of injury and treatment of the terrible triad

Jochem Nagels - ( The Netherlands )

14h25

Q & A

14h30

Clinical Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery

Job Doornberg - ( The Netherlands )

14h55

Q & A

15h00

Coffee-Break

Free paper session

15h30 - 17h00

Free paper Session

Moderator: F. Bonnevie

Enabling locking screw compatibility for thin patient-specific implants using droplet deposition

V. Molderez

Evaluation of the superior pubic ramus and supra acetabular corridors using statistical shape modeling.

S. De Bondt

Debridement, Antibiotics and Implant retention in fracture-related infection treatment.

J. Sliepen

Splint smarter: A multiple cycle audit evaluating staff proficiency in Thomas Splint application

F. Wyatt

Bosworth fracture: an irreducible ankle fracture-dislocation not to be underestimated

M. Serilas

BOTA - BSS closing

Room BMW 2

Guest Session: Belgian Spine Society

1. Cervical Trauma

09h00

Diagnostics in C-Trauma

Niki Fransen

09h20

Current & future concepts in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)

Joost Dejaegher

09h40

Rehab of SCI

E. Duinslager / K. Borgions

10h00

Coffee-Break

2. Paediatric Spinal Trauma

10h30

Rotatory subluxation UZL algorithm

Pierre Moens

10h45

Indications for Conservative treatment

Sebastiaan Schelfaut

3. Miscelaneous Spinal Trauma

11h00

DISH

Sebastiaan Schelfaut

11h15

Pathological Spinal Fractures

Lieven Moke

11h30

Sacral insufficiency fractures

Thibault Dewilde

11h45

Lumbopelvic Dissociation

Michiel Herteleer

12h00

Lunch, visit to our partners

Session 3: Bone Healing problems: Delayed union, non-union and infection

13h30 - 15h00

Bone Healing problems: Delayed union, non-union and infection

Moderator: M. Herteleer

13h30

State of the art in the management of open fractures

F. Bonnevie

14h00

Management of Delayed union and non union of fractures in the geriatric population?

Guy Putzeys

14h30

Fracture related infection: current state of the art

WJ Metsemakers

15h00

Coffee-Break

Session 4: Organization of trauma care in the civil and military environment

15h30 - 17h00

Organization of trauma care in the civil and military environment

Moderator: R. Jacobs

15h30

Reoganisation of the Level-Criteria in the dutch trauma System.

Jochem Hoogendoorn

16h00

B-FAST Militar / Civil organization

F. De Haes

16h30

Organization of the military medical chain during war and lessons for the civil society

R. Jacobs

BOTA - BSS closing