Description
The goal is to provide general practitioners with the expertise needed to utilise linear and hybrid external fixation safely and effectively in their clinical practice, improving patient outcomes and expanding their range of treatment options.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the indications and contraindications for external skeletal fixation, including appropriate patient selection and considerations for application of linear and hybrid constructs to different appendicular long bones and types of fractures.
- Learn the technical skills necessary to properly apply linear and hybrid constructs, including appropriate pin and wire placement as well as frame construction, minimizing intraoperative and postoperative complications.
- Develop an understanding of postoperative care and management of patients, including monitoring for complications.
- Learn how to evaluate and modulate the success of external skeletal fixation, through an understanding of the fixator biomechanics, methods of bone grafting and an assessment of fracture healing.
- Gain insight into the economics of linear and circular fixator application.
Speaker Biography
Dr. Daniel Dean Lewis
DVM, Diplomate ACVS, ACVS Founding Fellow Minimally Invasive
Small Animal Surgery (Orthopedics), Honorary Fellow Australian New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists
Professor Emeritus and former Jerry and Lola Collins Eminent Scholar in
Canine Sports Medicine and Comparative Orthopedics
Small Animal Surgery and subsequantly Orthopedic Surgery Service Chief (former)
Coordinator Small Animal Surgery Residency Program (former)
Associate Chair Graduate and House Officer Education (former)
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Florida
Dan Lewis received his DVM from the University of California, Davis in 1983. He completed an Internship in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery at Louisiana State University in 1984 and a Residency in Small Animal Surgery at the University of Florida in 1987. Dr. Lewis spent a year as the Surgical Registrar at Sydney University before returning to Louisiana State University in 1988 as an Assistant Professor. In 1993, he returned to the University of Florida where he has ascended to his current rank as a Professor of Small Animal Surgery and was subsequently named the Jerry and Lola Collins Eminent Scholar in Canine Sports Medicine and Comparative Orthopedics. Dr. Lewis is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons, a Founding Fellow in Minimal Invasive Small Animal Orthopedic Surgery, a former President of the Veterinary Orthopedic Society, the recipient of the 2012 World Small Animal Veterinary Association-Hill’s Pet Mobility Award. He was named a University of Florida Foundation Research Professor in 2016, was the recipient of the Veterinary Orthopedic Society’s Steve Fox Life Time Achievement Award in 2024 and was admitted as an Honorary Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in 2024. Dr. Lewis has authored or co-authored over 225 peer-reviewed publications. His special interests include musculoskeletal traumatology, minimally invasive fracture management and reconstructive orthopedic surgery with a focus on the utilization of circular and hybrid external skeletal fixation for fracture stabilization, deformity correction and limb salvage procedures. In addition, Dr. Lewis has most recently embraced the use of virtual surgical planning and 3D printing in complex orthopedic procedures.
Value to your practice
Enhance your surgical capabilities and expand your treatment options with this hands-on workshop. You’ll gain the practical skills and confidence to safely incorporate linear and hybrid external skeletal fixation into your clinical practice. Learn proper application techniques, patient selection, instrumentation, and postoperative care, while also understanding how to prevent, recognise, and manage complications. Through a mix of theory and lab-based exercises using plastic bones and cadavers, you’ll leave equipped to improve patient outcomes and provide advanced orthopedic solutions in your clinic.
Event Details
Start date: July 30, 2026
End date: July 31, 2026
Start time: 08:30 AEDT
End time: 17:00 AEDT
Venue: Advanced Centre for Education (ACE) Facility
Coordinates: -33.8090606251281, 151.14915218091693
Directions: 21 Chaplin Dr, Lane Cove NSW 2066, Australia
Phone: 1800 960 300
Email: info@practicalcpd.com.au
