Donate gently used ex-fix and rings to help trauma patients in low-to-middle-income countries
Humanitarian opportunity from the AO Trauma North America Community Development Committee
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Help us get your sets packaged and distributed to SIGN surgeons throughout the world, where they will be used in acute trauma, deformity correction, and lengthening.
Collect your gently used
- Synthes and Smith & Nephew (JET-X and Taylor) spatial rings
- Older Zimmer frames
- Newer Stryker Hoffmann frames
Send them to
- SIGN Fracture Care International
- AO Community Development Initiative
- 3518 SE 21st Ave
- Portland, OR 97202
Make sure they are clean, broken down, and do not include used pins.
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Turn this,
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into this!
Keep a look out for patient stories to be featured in an upcoming newsletter!
Photographs courtesy of Randy Heubner, SIGN.