14th Asia-Pacific Arthroplasty Society Annual Meeting - APAS 2012

The Asia-Pacific Arthroplasty Society Annual Meeting is dedicated to techniques and developments in joint repair surgery.

Key Topics

• Alternatives to TKA (HTO, cartilage regeneration)
• Preoperative assessment
• Optimum anaesthesia
• Partial knee (UKA, patello-femoral, bicruciate, robotic UKA)
• Blood loss management (Tourniquet, tranexamic acid, drains, transfusion)
• Infection prevention
• Tricks for deformity correction
• Anticoagulants & antibiotics
• Rehabilitation & Pain management
• Balancing & alignment
• Periprosthetic fractures
• Xray discussion of primary complex cases & revisions
• Keynote lectures- Implant choice, biomechanics for surgeons, understanding knee designs, patient psychology)
• Record keeping, research and publishing
• Balancing and Implant constraint in revisions
• Revision - Assessing failure
• Infection management (diagnosis, treatment, Spacers)
• Bone defect management (sleeves, stems, augments, cones)