Learn like you were there!
Take a virtual seat at a self-learning, online course! These programs bring more topics related to your specialty area for a standard set of 4 CME credits each. This AAOS CODOrthoXpress brings you video recordings of expert faculty discussing: Part II 2018 AAOS/AOFAS Total Ankle Arthroplasty: The Newer Kids on the Block
Course Director: Steven L. Haddad, MD
Course Description: This course will review the indications for appropriate surgery, as well as the spectrum of treatment techniques. This course will cover the basics of TKA, deformities, infections, salvaging a failed TKA, and much more.
Watch and listen to the lecturers and their presentation slides, including patient cases, related surgical video demonstrations and emerging technologies. Content is segmented by topic, so you can pick up where you left off or select lectures you prefer to watch - across your devices.
This Course OnDemand OrthoXpress program features 9 sessions from distinguished faculty covering:
- Deformity Correction: What I can Accomplish in One Stage
- Deformity Correction: Why it Takes Me Two Stages to Do One Operation
- The Painful Total Ankle Arthroplasty
- Infection in Total Ankle Arthroplasty
- The Ultimate Stiffness
- Salvage of Failed Total Ankle Arthroplasty: Revision
- Salvage of Failed Total Ankle Arthroplasty: Arthrodesis and Operation Operations
This convenient, self-directed course gives you the flexibility to engage with trusted AAOS course content, online at your convenience.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, learners should be able to:
- Identify the need for supplementary procedures done commensurate with or in advance of total ankle arthroplasty
- Explain the timing of said procedures (one or two stage reconstructions)
- Identify post-operative management of four FDA approved U.S. total ankle arthroplasties
- Evaluate the complications (early and late) of total ankle arthroplasty
- Formulate and implement a strategy to manage said complications (fusion vs. revision)
AAOS designates this activity for 4 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits™.