The main theme of the scientific programme will be “Patient Safety” and will include:

• A full-day Comprehensive Review Course (CRC)
• A full-day Advanced Course on Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement
• Honorary Lectures
• Instructional Lectures
• Interactive Expert Exchange (IEE) Sessions
• Symposia
• Evidence-Based Medicine Session (EBM)
• Debate Forum
• Complex Case Discussion (CCD)
• Industry Symposia
• Free Paper Sessions
• Poster presentations
• Nurse Day

Highlights of the 15th EFORT Congress London 2014

General orthopaedics

• Reconstruction on upper limb
• Salvage procedures for hip and knee replacement
• What is evidence based orthopaedics?
• How to diagnose deep infection?
• Sarcopenia and osteoporosis
• Pain control in Paediatric Orthopaedics
• ACL revision
• The championship of materials

Upper Limb

• Finger fracture
• The complicated reverse shoulder

Spine

• Spine Surgeon: European Diploma

Lower Limb

• Ankle fusion or arthroplasty?
• Conservative approaches
• Knee osteoarthritis

Tauma

• The periprosthetic fracture
• Treatment of bone defect
• Polytrauma in the elderly

Paediatrics

• New approaches in managing children’s pain