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APPROVED COURSE REPORTS

Report for the

4th Pune Knee Course

April 26-27, 2014

The 4th Pune Knee Course was held on 26th and 27th
April, 2014 at Hotel J W Marriott, SB Road, Pune.

The event was a great success with 501 orthopaedic
surgeons as delegates, three International and 16
National faculties. The format of the meeting was

that of Live Surgeries, Panel Discussions and Patient
Evaluation sessions.

The international faculties were:

1. Prof. Dr. Freddie Fu, Pittsburgh, USA

2. Dr. Jonathan Herald, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
3. Dr. Lieve Vanden Berghe, BELGIUM

The Indian Faculties were:

1. Dr. David Rajan
9. Dr. Sundararajan
Prof. Dr. Freddie Fu examined a patient with an
2. Dr. Anant Joshi
10. Dr. Pankaj Amite
ACL rupture on stage and discussed the line of
3. Dr. Abhay Narvekar
11. Dr. Vivek Pandey
management and reasoning for decision making.
This was something new for the delegates and they
4. Dr. Clement Joseph
12. Dr. Anupama Patil
all felt this was something very useful to them in their
5. Dr. Dinshaw Pardiwala
13. Dr. Roshan Wade
clinical practice.
6. Dr. Parag Sancheti
14. Dr. Sachin Tapasvi
There was an interesting session on management
7. Dr. Deepak Goyal
15. Dr. Nilesh Kamat
of cartilage injuries conducted by Dr. Deepak
8. Dr. Arumugam
16. Dr. Shirish Pathak
Goyal–President of Indian Cartilage Society and

member of the Asia Pacific Cartilage Society. This
The opening day started with Dr. Jonathan Herald was followed by a live surgical demonstration of ACI
demonstrating a single bundle anatomic ACL
implantation surgery using gel based technique.
Reconstruction surgery. There was two way audio-
video communication and a lot of discussion went The post lunch session covered multi ligament
injuries in great detail. There was a live surgical
on during the surgical procedure. This was followed
by a video technique session on graft harvesting demonstration on PCL Reconstruction by Dr. Anant
Joshi. The course chairman, Dr. Sachin Tapasvi
techniques and later there was a panel discussion demonstrated a combined anatomic BTB ACL
on ACL injuries. In the panel discussions, cases were
Reconstruction + PLC reconstruction surgery as well
presented and the panelists were invited to give their as a combined anatomic MCL reconstruction + ACL
opinions on the same. Lot of discussions took place
with the delegates asking questions from the floor augmentation surgery. There were panel discussions
and patient examination sessions highlighting multi
as well.
ligament injuries as well.

The delegates were absolutely glued to their seats
and it was indeed heartening to see that even at 6.30

in the evening the hall was completely packed and
the delegates were extremely attentive.

The course dinner was held at the same venue. It was

indeed an excellent gathering for all the delegates
since they had a unique opportunity to interact with
the faculty members informally.

26th April started off with a big bang with Prof.
Freddie Fu doing a live surgical demonstration
of anatomic Double Bundle ACL Reconstruction

at 8.00 in the morning and the venue hall was
packed to the capacity to watch the master.

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