SECONDARY LEVEL TRAINEES FROM TIRUPUR

An excellent batch of trainees who were very interested in Hand surgery and eager to carry out the procedures at their centre.

-Karthik

SECONDARY LEVEL TRAINEES FROM CHEYYAR, TVM DT.

The batch of trainees from Cheyyar completed their training in Hand surgery today. They were a very interested batch of people, with hopes of starting such services in their hospital. we wish them all the best.

_ Karthik

PLASTIC SURGERY DAY JULY 15 - AT STANLEY HOSPITAL

Hi friends!

The Institute for Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery and Department of Plastic Surgery has always done things in style! Plastic Surgery Day ( July 15 ) was no different. It was a happening day at our Department. It was not doing things doing free that was important. It was the passion and dedication with which anything was done.

It started with a bang with a successful bilateral hand replant. A young man who had both hands amputated at the wrist level in a book cutting machine at Chidambaram, was rushed to Stanley Hospital.

The replant procedure was done by two teams consisting of surgeons, staff nurses and theatre assistants.As this procedure was going on, routine work was also in progress at the Department. To show you what our routine was, we give the particulars of the census on July 15 2011.

OUTPATIENT CLINIC

NEW CASES: 22

REVIEW CASES: 24

OP DRESSINGS: 56

WOUND CLINIC : 14

EMERGENCY THEATRE

TOTAL CASES: 24

OPERATED: 17

ELECTIVE THEATRE

TOTAL OPERATED: 13

After the routine work was over there was an awareness programme for the fresh batch of house surgeons at Stanley Hospital on Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hand and Microsurgery

Following this programme and discussion, there was a guided tour of the Plastic surgery, Hand surgery and Microsurgical skills lab, and a demonstration on how to develop skills for plastic surgery. This was well received by the fresh graduate students.

The commemoration of Plastic Surgery day was not over. The next day - July 16, 2011, a hand transplant awareness programme was conducted for transplant coordinators, NGOs dealing with donors and patients. This was also an interesting session with a lot of interaction and new ideas coming up.

Thus Plastic and Reconstructive surgery Day was well celebrated at one of the pioneering Departments in the State. This was not surprising, considering that this Department is the precursor of some of the celebrated Plastic Surgeons in Tamilnadu. This has been possible because of the dedicated work put in by all the staff and students.

- Karthik

SECONDARY LEVEL TRAINEES FROM SALEM AND PERAMBALUR

The next set of trainees from Salem and Perambalur completed their basic Hand surgery training on 15 July 2011. They have expressed their ideas on how they plan to use this training to serve the hand injury patients in their respective hospitals.

- Karthik

TERTIARY LEVEL TRAINING FOR PLASTIC SURGERY RESIDENT FROM MADURAI

Another tertiary level trainee Dr Gunasekaran- M.Ch Plastic surgery resident from Madurai. A very hard working and genuinely interested resident - seemed to be passionate about hand surgery. We wish him all the best!

- Karthik

TERTIARY LEVEL TRAINING FOR ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY RESIDENTS FROM TIRUNELVELI

The set of orthopaedic surgery residents from Tirunelveli - tertiary level trainees after a long gap! Very interested in the techniques of hand surgery practised at our Institute. There were lively discussions on orthopaedic principles and applications in hand surgery.

- Karthik

SECONDARY LEVEL TRAINING FOR TEAM FROM NAGERCOIL

SECONDARY LEVEL TRAINING FOR TEAM FROM DINDIGUL

The team members from Dindigul along with the faculty, Ms Selvarani and Ms. Kala, Staff Nurses and Ms. Yuvarani. This team from Dindigul was particularly interested in the day to day management of acute injuries and what they could do at their centre for such unfortunate people.

- Karthik

SECONDARY LEVEL TRAINING FROM VELLORE, VIRUDHUNAGAR AND TIRUPUR

The three batches are completing their training of 15 days tomorrow. A very lively batch with a lot of interaction.

- Karthik

SECONDARY LEVEL TRAINING - TIRUVANNAMALAI

The team from Tiruvannamalai completed their program on 15.3.2011. Were impressed with the program and said they were benefitted.

-Karthik

PRIMARY LEVEL TRAINING AT RAMANATHAPURAM

Interesting session at Ramnad and very interactive session with the doctors.

- GK

PRIMARY LEVEL TRAINING AT PARAMAKUDI

PRIMARY LEVEL TRAINING PROGRAM AT SIVAGANGAI

A very interesting weekend - at the training programme at Ramnad and Sivaganga.

Always refreshing to talk to young minds on new topics like hand and microsurgery - there was interesting interaction with new ideas.

- GK

Visitors from the TISS

Hi!

Today we had a group of students from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Had an interesting interaction with them. Most of them were doctors and bio medical degree holders. Several intelligent questions on our statistics, epidemiological implications of hand injuries, our outreach programmes with the community were discussed. Prof. R. Krishnamoorthy joined the discussions and stressed on the role that social sciences had to play in speciality treatment programmes.

All in all, a lively discussion. A few pics from the programme.

Karthik

Gr8 to be back!!

Hi friends!

Great being back after a loo...ong time..!

To start off, fantastic news!!!

The MCI has recognised hand surgery as a speciality. This step is surely a giant leap for the growth of this speciality. Research and development will definitely get a fillip with this move.

On the Stanley Hospital front, you may all be aware that a training programme on Hand and Microsurgery is being conducted at different levels under the aegis of the Tamilnadu government and NRHM. Above are some of the pics at the primary level programme on 19.2.2011 for Vellore and Tirupathur HUD medical officers and staff nurses.