Dr. Espiniella from Fraternidad-Muprespa, in the SETLA webinar "Arthroscopy in joint fractures”

Fraternidad-Muprespa participated on Saturday, June 19, in the Webinar Traumatology: Role of arthroscopy in joint fractures: Necessity or fashion? organized by SETLA, Spanish Society of Traumatology Labor.

The president of SETLA, Dr. Javier Vaquero Ruipérez, opened the day by welcoming the moderator, Dr. Gabriel López Graña, Head of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology of Ibermutua Madrid and the rest of the prestigious professionals of this day.

On behalf of the Mutual, Dr. Alfredo Espiniella Tendero, Traumatologist of the Hand-Wrist Unit of the Hospital Fraternidad-Muprespa Habana, with the presentation “Fractures of the Distal Extremity of the Radius and Carpus: Are these fractures operated on?”

Dr. Espiniella indicated the high rate of Fractures of the Distal Extremity of the Radius (FEDR), they represent 15% of upper limb fractures and are a public health problem due to the functional impact on the patients.

The use of arthroscopy allows us to improve the care of our patients and provide them with better functional results, since it not only allows us to improve the quality of the anatomical reduction of intra-articular fragments with a minimally invasive technique, but also to detect associated lesions through direct vision that would otherwise be missed. unnoticed.

He continued sharing a recent case in which arthroscopy allowed visualization of a displaced fragment, which was successfully treated thanks to the use of this tool.

Arthroscopy is a mechanism in the hands of the surgeon to improve the treatment that is performing.

To conclude his presentation, he detailed with interesting images and videos, the phases of the surgical technique that our traumatologists at the Hospital perform to treat these fractures.

In his conclusions he commented that due to the type of population that the Mutua serves, mostly young patients in work, the arthroscopy technique allows for more precision in the diagnosis and treatment of joint fractures of the radio.

As for the rest of the participants, specialists from different mutual insurance companies and private hospitals were present, such as Dr. Gloria López Hernández (Head of the Lower Limb Unit of the Fremap Hospital of Majadahonda) with the presentation "Fractures of the Tibial Plateau: the pioneers. When and how?", Dr. Elvira Iglesias Duran (Head of the Foot and Ankle Unit at the Asepeyo Hospital in Coslada) with the presentation “Ankle Fractures: an ankle has been admitted", Dr.Eduardo Sánchez Alepuz (Head of the Traumatology Service at the IMED Hospital in Valencia) with the presentation “Shoulder Fractures: Are we getting complicated at all?”, Dr. Santos Moros Marco (Traumatologist at the MAZ Zaragoza Hospital Unit) with the presentation “Elbow Fractures: Is arthroscopy really useful?” All of them contributed their experiences with arthroscopy in each of their specialties according to the type of fracture: shoulder, elbow, knee, ankle and foot.

The closing was done by Dr. José García López, Vice President of SETLA, thanking all the speakers for their intervention.

You can watch the webinar by accessing the SETLA website (www.setla.es) or directly through the following link.