1st Indus Hospital Hand Surgery Workshop report
Mar 24,2010
By the grace of Allah the Indus Hospital organized Hand Surgery Workshop on February 14, 2010. Professor Tahseen Ahmad Cheema, Head of Hand Surgery Division, University of New Mexico Albuquerque graced the occasion as Visiting Professor at the Indus Hospital.
The other faculty members and organizers of the workshop included Professor Muhammad Umar ( IOS ), Dr. Shehab Afzal Beg ( LNH ), Dr. Shehab Ghani ( LNH ), Dr. Haroon ur Rashid ( AKUH ), Dr. Mazhar Nizam ( Patel Hosp. ), Dr. Syed Kamran Ahmed, Dr. Sadaf Saeed, Prof. M. Amin Chinoy, Dr. Mansoor Ali Khan and Dr. Arshad Jamil ( Indus Hosp. )
The workshop was well participated with almost 80 people including over 50 registered participants. This included residents and faculty members from all orthopaedic and plastic surgery institutes of the city of Karachi as well as from Jamshoro and Peshawar.
The lectures included Wrist injuries, evaluation ( Dr. Haroon ur Rashid ), Syndactyly and its sequel ( Dr. Shehab Afzal Beg ), Burnt Hand ( Dr. Mazhar Nizam ), Distal radioulnar joint arthroplasty in rheumatoid patients ( Dr. S. Kamran Ahmed ), Flexor tendon injuries, management and rehabilitation ( Dr. Shehab Ghani ), Visiting Professor Lecture “ Evolution of Human thumb and its reconstruction in congenital and traumatic loss” ( Prof. Tahseen Ahmad Cheema ), Brachial plexus injuries, evaluation and management ( Prof. Tahseen Ahmad Cheema )
Two hand surgeries were performed and telecasted live for the participants in the seminar hall. The first case was a radial club hand and centralization was done. The second case was Apert’s acrosyndactyly which underwent release of 1st web and dorsal rotation flap.
A number of complex hand problems were also discussed in the case discussion hour.
Prof. Cheema remained with the Indus Hospital on February 15th as well and performed outpatient clinic and two more surgeries apart from other clinical acticities.
The feedback has been encouraging and InshaAllah such academic activities shall be conducted at the Indus Hospital in the future as well.
We than all the faculty members and the participants for making this academic endeavour a success. We also thank the SJ&G pharmaceutical for their support in organizing this event.
