Orthopaedics and Trauma: Current Concepts and Best Practices

This book provides an easy-going, high-quality and updated work focused on the most common diagnoses of Traumatology and Orthopaedics. It’s structured with several sub-headings, including bullet-point tips for basic concepts.

Each chapter is focused on a specific pathology and includes the following sub-headings: short introduction, applied anatomy and physiology, prevalence, classification, diagnosis (including anamnesis, physical examination and complementary imaging, from plain x-ray to cross-sectional imaging), treatment (conservative-surgical options), controversies, complications, future directions and author’s preference for treatment apart from references.

Orthopaedics and Trauma - Current Concepts will be an inspiration to the young orthopaedic resident, fellow or even general orthopaedic surgeon and senior medical student. It will definitely help with their careers and also be a useful tool to prepare for the board certified orthopaedic examination.

Pablo Slullitel, MD, is a consultant arthroplasty surgeon with great interest in complex adult reconstructive surgery and hip preservation surgery. After obtaining his medical license with honors, he performed residency training at Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. Afterwards, he performed a 2-month visiting fellowship at the Hip Preservation Department of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, where he participated in clinical research. Dr. Slullitel accomplished a 2-year clinical fellowship at the Hip Surgery Unit of Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires and later on he travelled to Canada to perform a 1-year clinical adult reconstructive and hip preservation fellowship, under the command of Dr. Paul E. Beaulé. Later on, he was granted with 2 travelling fellowships extended by European Association of Orthopaedic Surgery and American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons. During his training and all along his career, Dr. Slullitel has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and has also actively participated in local and international orthopaedic specialty meetings.

Luciano Rossi, MD, PhD is a consultant shoulder surgeon with great interest in ortho-biological therapies. He graduated with honors from medical school and did a 5-year residency training in orthopaedic surgery at Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, where he also performed a 2-year clinical orthopaedic shoulder surgery fellowship. Later on, Dr. Rossi has accomplished multiple fellowships, including a clinical research fellowship at the Clinical Research and Documentation Department of AO Foundation in Zurich, Switzerland; 2 fellowships in biological therapies (at Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic); and 3 additional fellowships in shoulder surgery and sports medicine (at Centre Orthopédique Santy in Lyon, Rush Medical Center in Chicago and at the German Association of Shoulder and Elbow Association). Dr. Rossi achieved a Master in Clinical Research in 2017 and PhD in Epidemiological Medicine in 2019.

Camino-Willhuber, MD, is a consultant spine surgeon at Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, where he also performed residency training. He has great interest in minimally-invasive surgery for the treatment of spinal degenerative and traumatic disease. During 2013, Dr. Camino-Willhuber was an AO research fellow at the Department of Biomedical Services of the AO Research Institute in Davos, Switzerland. He performed a 2-year spine surgery fellowship at Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires and in 2021 he performed a Spine Fellowship at University of California, Irvine. Dr. Camino-Willhuber is an associated member of the AOSpine Knowledge Forum Trauma and has written several peer-reviewed articles. Additionally, he has recently been the main editor of the book ’The Spine’ [’Columna Vertebral’], edited by the Hospital Italiano of Buenos Aires Editorial.