Tony Brookes

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Thursday, 6 September 2007

The very first day.

I attended the orthopaedic trauma meeting on Monday the 3rd of September and sat with my Reporting Radiographers who attend this meeting every week day morning. I have attended this meeting many times before, normally before I go to theatre so I know what patients could be going for surgery.


This time was different, I new I was going to join Mr R and Mr D's Orthopaedic surgical team. I introduced my self to their Senior Registrar who knew I was joining them that day.


We walked up to the orthopaedic wards to assess the patients who had been admitted over the weekend and to review the patients who had been treated before. There was a number of patients who had been to theatre for the application of an Ilizarov Frame. This is a procedure invented by a Russion Surgeon Called Professor Gavril Abramovich Ilizarov.
























Abramovich Ilizarov was born in the Soviet Union (1921), he was not educated until 11yrs of age, he attended a medical school, Kugan, Siberia. In the 1950's he developed this revolutionary method of treating the fractured limb and bony abnormalities with the circular fixator.


After 10yrs of research he had achieved advances in the techniques of Physeal Distraction, Corticotomy Lenghtening and Bone Transport.

He proved that mechanically applied bone stress technique produced bone regeneration, but due to the Iron curtain his work was not found in the rest of the world until (1967).

Professor Bianchi-Maiocchi. A, visited the Kurgan institute (1981), and was able to introduce the Ilizarov technique to the west. In (1992), Professor Gavril Abromovich Ilizarov died

(1921-1992).


The invention is a way of immobilising a fracture within a Stainless Steel cage around the limb, by inserting Stainless Steel wires through the bone and attaching it to a circular frame that is being built around the limb.


Once the ward round had been completed, the team walked down to the Call Back clinic. This clinic is for the walking wounded who had been treated over the weekend and allowed to go home, but re-attend on the following Monday to be seen by the an Orthopaedic Doctor.

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