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Bone cement, infection and local treatment in orthopaedic surgery

9th October 2015
Languages: English, Italian, Spanish

Session I

Bone cement: 50 years of successful clinical history. Cemex bone cement, the proof of evidence
that also cement can be improved
Calonego G – Verona (Italy)

Cemex bone cement from the first in vitro studies to 30 years of clinical history
Magnan B, Verona (Italy)

Antibiotics: what an orthopaedic surgeon should know – Pharmacological aspects
Bertazzoni Minelli E – Verona (Italy)

Antibiotic in bone cement: cement and cement spacers
Calonego G – Verona (Italy)

Antibiotics: what an orthopaedic surgeon should know – Prophylaxis in orthopaedic surgery
Bertazzoni Minelli E, Verona (Italy)

ALAC (Antibiotic Loaded Acrylic Cement) and its widespread use: is it justified?
To be confirmed

Session II

Surgical debridement: the first step towards infection eradication
Morgan-Jones R, Cardiff (United Kingdom)

One-stage revision: my choice
Morgan-Jones R, Cardiff (United Kingdom)

Two-stage revision with hip/knee spacers – 15-year experience
Romanò C, Milan (Italy)

Augmentation techniques with antibiotic PMMA spacers in septic revision surgery
Flesch I, Tübingen (Germany)

Gentamicin vs Gentamicin-Vancomycin spacers: clinical results
Corona P, Barcelona (Spain)

The use of antibiotic coated nails as a treatment option for osteomyelitis, septic nonunions and
arthrodesis
Magnan B, Verona (Italy)

Gait analysis in patients with a preformed articulated hip/knee spacer.
Romanò C, Milan (Italy)

Segmental extraction of cement in infected prosthesis.
Cabo J, Barcelona (Spain)

Cement extractor device in revision prosthesis of the humerus
Giannotti S, Pisa (Italy)

Friday, 9th October 2015
9.00 – 16.30
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