Orthopedic Trauma Workshop “Basic Principles of Relative and Absolute Stability”

Held on November 9, 2018, at Hospital Quinta D’Or, the Event was coordinated and presented by Dr. Paulo Roberto Barbosa, with the support of Porto Surgical, and had the participation of Surgeons and Residents from Hospitals Quinta D’Or and Clementino Fraga Filho. Lectures were presented about the basic concepts and ways to stabilize fractures of upper and lower limbs with the use of materials such as Intramedullary Nail Systems, Plate and Screw Systems with and without Lock and External Fixation Systems. After each lecture, “Hands-On” sessions were held in 4 stations set up in the workshop space, with synthetic bones and other demonstration materials, where the Surgeons and Residents present at the event could experiment and simulate the techniques demonstrated, with the guidance and supervision of Dr. Paulo Roberto and the help of Porto Surgical salespeople and instrumentalists and Thiago Vieira, Stryker’s Trauma Product Specialist, who was present at the event along with Renata Porto, Stryker’s Trauma Product Manager.