Workshop on Trauma Management with Cast Application - April 14, 2002

The workshop on Trauma Management with Cast Application was held on Sunday, April 14, 2002 at the Orthopaedic Learning Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong.

Fifty nurses and doctors from different local hospitals attended this one-day workshop. In the morning session, comprehensive lectures about fractures and cast management were talked by our expert speakers.

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After the fruitful morning session, our honorable speaker demonstrated the proper technique in applying short arm slab, complete short arm Cast and short leg Cast. Then all the participants were being divided into six small groups to practice the technique of applying the POP/Cast. With the supervision of our Orthopaedic surgeons, all the applicants had made use of this valuable opportunity to polish their skill and also acted as patients to experience the feeling of being applied POP/Cast by the other health care profession.

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The most exciting moment was the time to remove the POP/Cast. Quite a lot of the participants felt insecure and nervous when the other participants using the electric saw helping them to bivalve their POP/Cast. Indeed, it was a very good learning opportunity for us, as health care profession, to have a better understanding about the feeling of our patients.

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Since we had good support from our Orthopaedic surgeons, POP technicians and members of the nurse subcommittee, this Cast Workshop had got very positive feedback from our participants. Finally, we would like to thank Mr. LAI Yuk Wah and Ms. Grace LI, with their experienced guiding, we can make the workshop successful.