Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology was started in 1985 and has grown significantly since with the addition of a full time orthopaedic surgeon and its incorporation into the trauma team.
Facilities available :
- 24 hours Accident and Trauma care
- Image Intensifier (C-Arm)
- State of art Operation Theatres for trauma, arthroscopy, spine and replacement surgeries.
- Video Arthroscopy
Surgeries performed in the department of Orthopaedics :
I. Trauma – AO fixation techniques
- Ili-Zarov ring fixations
- Closed Interlocking nailing
- Orthofix external fixation
- Limb reconstruction system
II. Joint replacements
- Total knee replacement
- Total hip replacement
III. Arthroscopy
- Meniscal injuries
- ACL reconstruction
- Shoulder arthroscopy
IV. Spine Surgery
- Microlumbar descectomy
- Fenestration descectomy
- Cervical spine descectomy
- Spine fraction – Pedicle screw fixation
- TB spine – Corpectomy and cage fusion
V. Deformity Correction
- Club foot
- Poliomyelitis, cerebral palsy
- Limb lengthening