AO Trauma Course—Operative Fragility Fracture Management
This course addresses current concepts and state-of-the-art treatment options fragility fracture care. A combination of case discussions, anatomical specimen labs, and evidence-based lectures will be used to deliver the content. Indications and techniques in osteoporotic fracture care will be discussed and practiced.
The principles and advantages of comanaged care approach will be identified. Facilitated by an expert Faculty consisting of both surgeons and medicine physicians, an important focus will be placed on group discussions and hands-on.
Why you should choose this course
Course content
- Anterior approach to the hip
- Creation of an intertrochanteric fracture
- Fracture fixation with TFNA
- Master table demonstration of augmentation
- How to deal with complications group discussion
- Periprosthetic femoral fractures group discussion
- Atypical femoral fractures group discussion
- Prevention of fixation failures by the use of augmentation group discussion
- Creation of a proximal humeral fracture through a deltopectoral approach
- Fracture fixation through anterior acromial approach with nail
- Osteoporotic fractures of the upper extremity group discussion
- Module 1: Proximal femur
- Module 2: Pelvis and spine
- Module 3: Upper extremity
- Osteoporotic fractures of the pelvis, acetabulum and vertebral column
- Osteoporotic fractures of the humerus
- How to deal with complications
- Periprosthetic femoral fractures
- Atypical femoral fractures
- Prevention of fixation failures by the use of augmentation
- Osteoporosis—diagnosis, treatment and secondary fracture prevention
- Comorbidity and perioperative optimization
- Femoral neck fracture fixation in elderly patients—what is the best option? (evidence)
- Intertrochanteric fracture fixation—plate versus nail (evidence)
- How to overcome reduction problems in subtrochanteric fractures—tips and tricks
- Operative treatment of pelvic and acetabular fractures in the elderly—indications and surgical techniques
- Vertebral column fractures—when and how to operate?
- General principles of anticoagulation and bleeding disorders
- General principles of pain management
- Principles of comanaged care
- Postoperative medical management (including delirium)
- Proximal humeral fracture—nonoperative treatment, plate, nail or replace?
- Failed fixation in proximal humeral fracture treatment—how to manage it?
- Complex elbow fractures—tips and tricks
- Fractures around the wrist—what is important?
Course details may be subject to change. Please check your chosen date and location for the detailed program.
Target audience
- Practicing surgeons in orthopedic trauma, orthopedics, and general trauma
- Geriatricians and other medicine physicians (eg, internal medicine, anesthesiology)
- Residents/trainees (surgical and medical)
Course impressions
Competencies
The education taskforce has identified the following competencies for this area of practice:
- Correctly fix fragility fractures as indicated
- Adapt treatment in line with aging
- Recognize comorbidities and polypharmacy
- Prevent, identify, and treat complications
- Address secondary prevention (osteoporosis, falls)
- Restore function early
- Apply the basic science of fixation and bone biology
- Initiate and comanage patient care with the healthcare team
- Build a system of care for fragility fractures
- Seek to restore and preserve functionality, independence, and quality of life
What does competency-based curriculum development mean?
Resources
Orthogeriatrics education taskforce
Hala Samir Sweed (Egypt)
Term: 2026
Theo Tosounidis (Greece)
Term: 2025–2026
Radwan G Metwaly (Egypt)
Term: 2025–2026
Regional Program Contributors (RPCs)
Asia Pacific
Noratep Kulachote (Thailand)
Jamal Ashraf (India)
Europe and Southern Africa
An Sermon (Belgium)
Daniel Wenger (Sweden)
Middle East and Northern Africa
Sofiene Kallel (Tunisia)
Hayder Saleh Al Saadi (UAE)
Latin America
Julián Salavarrieta (Colombia)
Marco Carrión (Ecuador)
North America
Michael Leslie (USA)
Meir Marmor (USA)
Past taskforce members
Radwan Metwaly
Theodoros Tosounidis
Hala Sweed
Michael Blauth
Hazem Abdel Azeem Desuki
Frankie Leung
Tak Wing Lau
Christian Kammerlander
Cornel Sieber
Markus Gosch
Emilio Fantin
Clifford Jones
Katrin Singler
Stephen Kates
Carlos Mario Olarte Salazar
Joseph Nicholas
Hitendra Doshi
Noratep Kulachote
An Sermon
Daniel Wenger
Jamal Ashraf
Sofiène Kallel
Hayder Al Saadi
Julian Salavarrieta
Marco Carrion-Monsalve
Meir Marmor
Michael Leslie
Norbert Suhm
Steven Schelkun
Tak Wing Lau
Carlos Mario Olarte Salazar
Daniel Schweitzer
Daniel Mendelson
Tobias Roth
Markus Gosch
Anna Miller
Wa’el Taha
Kodi Kojima
Bruce Twaddle
Mahmoud odat
Han Hegeman
Wilson Li
Emilio Fantin
Ji-Wan Kim
Theodoros Tosounidis
Roger Harris
Simon Mears
Joseph Nicholas
Leonid Farba
Hitendra Doshi
Radwan Metwaly
Muhammad Usman Sarwar
Carl Neuerburg
Hans Jürgen Heppner
Emad Saweeres
Jorge Paz
Sahar Usman
Hans-Christoph Pape
Carlos Dominguez
Eric Meinberg
Lynn McNicoll
Ana López
José Eduardo Grandi Ribeiro
Saam Morshed
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