Harald Tscherne

L. Gotzen

Progress in medical science, and the deeping of physician experience in general, make continuing education a fundamental obligation on the part of the practicing physician. Besides academies of advanced medical training, we feel that medical schools and uni versities offer a particularly good setting for continuing medical education. When the Hannover Medical School established West Germany's fIrst Department of Trauma Surgery in 1970, we committed ourselves to this goal and instituted the Hannover Trauma Seminars as a regional forum for continuing physician education. Made up almost entirely of our colleagues at the Trauma Surgery Clinic, the basic goal of the seminars is to review new discoveries and techniques in the fIeld of traumatology and assess their practical relevance to the physician who treats trauma victims. In addition to research, the experience ofthe Hannover School of Trauma Surgery form an important basis for seminar activities. The fIrst Trauma Seminar was held on February 2, 1972. Initially, copies ofthe proceed ings were simply distributed to all interested participants. But as attendance grew and demand for the proceedings increased, it became necessary to seek a broader form of publication. Henceforth, the Hannover Trauma Seminars will be published as part of the Topics in Traumatology series. For this we are grateful to Springer Verlag and to series editors Jorg Re~ and Leonhard Schweiberer.

Fractures with Soft Tissue Injuries

Annelie-Martina Weinberg

Unfallchirurgie im Kindesalter geht spezifisch auf die Versorgung von Verletzungen im Wachstum ein. Im Speziellen stellen die Autoren Wachstumsphänomene und spontane Korrekturmechanismen dar - abhängig vom Alter des Kindes zum Zeitpunkt des Unfalls. Der Fokus richtet sich dabei auf die operative Versorgung mit bewährten Zugängen und Osteosyntheseformen am wachsenden Skelett. Diese kann sich wesentlich von der Versorgung erwachsener Traumapatienten unterscheiden. Zusätzlich zeigen sie die chirurgische Versorgung polytraumatisierter Kinder sowie etwaiger Abdomen- und Weichteilverletzungen. Das Werk richtet sich an Unfall- und Kinderchirurgen.

Unfallchirurgie im Kindesalter - Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil, Kopf, Obere Extremität - Teil 2: Untere Extremität, Wirbelsäule, Körperhöhlen, Besonderheiten des kindlichen Skelettes

Tscherne Unfallchirurgie

Joseph Schatzker

This book contains the proceedings of an historic sympo sium, the first joint symposium of the Austrian, German and Swiss Trauma Associations and the Orthopaedic Trauma Association of North America. In an effort to bring Euro pean and North American trauma surgeons closer together and foster a free and productive exchange of ideas, these associations chose the meeting of the Austrian, German, and Swiss trauma associations, which was held in Vienna in May of 1991, as the occasion for their first joint session. The Austrian Trauma Association, led by its President, Professor Heinz Kuderna, was the host. The joint symposium of the European and the North American trauma associations, conducted in English, was held concurrently with the regular meeting of the AGS, conducted in German. In order to explore and compare the current concepts in trauma on the two continents, the organizing committee felt that the discussion should focus on an area full of challenge and controversy. Thus the major fractures of the pilon, the talus, and the os calcis were chosen as the topics of discus sion. Each subject was introduced by two keynote speakers, one from Europe and one from North America, who were chosen by their respective trauma associations on the basis of their expertise and distinguished contributions. These presentations were then followed by five or six invited shorter presentations on the subject. At the end of each session, the presenters formed a panel, debated controversial points, and answered questions from the audience.

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