From a half-day session with 30 nurses at the 2009 congress in Vienna and last year in Madrid with 70 nurses attending the nurse day, this year in Copenhagen was a success! Increased online networking spread the news about the session to a wide range of orthopaedic nurse associations around Europe. More than 200 nurses […]
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Please find in this webpage EFORT news articles that have been released by EFORT on orthopaedic and traumatology related topics of interest for the European orthopaedic amd truama community.
EFORT joins myclimate to reduce ecological footprint
January 11, 2011 By
The European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) has entered into a partnership with myclimate, a Swiss-based non-profit foundation that develops and supports projects all over the world that directly reduce greenhouse gases. Zurich, 10 January 2011 – The alliance aims to assure that the specific humanitarian goals of each organization complement rather […]
Decade of Action – World unites to halt death and injury on the road
May 10, 2010 By
The European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology supports the Decade of Action for Road Safet. The Decade , initiated by the United Nations and coordinated by the World Health Organisation, will be launched worldwide on 11 May 11 2011. Musculoskeletal surgeons deal daily with the acute and long term consequences of road trafic […]
Tribology Day
April 1, 2010 By
By Prof. Karl Knahr. The annual EFORT Congress has become one of the most important global meetings for orthopaedic surgeons. One of the reasons is the huge effort that this federation puts in to steadily improving their events. At the coming meeting in June 2010 in Madrid the organisation again will once again be offering […]
On the way to Asia – EFORT forges links with the Far East
March 14, 2010 By
BEIJING – EFORT and the Chinese Orthopaedic Association aim to hold joint training events. By Prof. Dr. Wolfhart Puhl, Immediate EFORT Past President Our first contact with China dates back to 1981. A small wooden bridge led out of Hong Kong into this enormous country. In my memory, parallel lines of cyclists dominated the streets. […]
WHO: Orthopaedic surgeons must engage pro-actively in promoting all aspects of surgical safety
March 14, 2009 By
By Pierre Hoffmeyer, EFORT Vice President. In January 2009, the New England Journal of Medicine published a special article describing a study taking place in eight hospitals in eight different cities, spanning the five continents, and representing a variety of socio-economic circumstances. 1. All the complications occurring within 30 days of surgery in these hospitals […]
