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    Ticketed Session

    Special Course 8 – Spine Trauma

    Saturday, February 22, 2025
    3:15 PM – 5:45 PM EST

    In partnership with the Brazilian Spine Society (BSS) and Brazilian Neurosurgical Society (BNS)

    This course will provide practical, current didactic information on spine trauma through lectures, interactive case presentations and discussion. Emphasis will be placed on surgical approaches, radiographic interpretation, spine trauma classification, stabilization techniques and complications avoidance and management.

    Disclosure(s):
    Asdrubal Falavigna, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
    Charles Sansur, MD, MHSc: Advanced Surgical Design: Ownership Interest (Ongoing); Globus Medical: Consultant (Ongoing), Royalty Recipient (Ongoing), Stock Shareholder (excluding mutual funds) (Ongoing); Maryland Development Corp: Ownership Interest (Ongoing); Medtronic: Consultant (Ongoing); OnPoint Surgical: Ownership Interest (Ongoing); SI-BONE: Consultant (Ongoing); Stryker: Royalty Recipient (Terminated, December 12, 2024)
    Rodrigo Amaral, MD: ATEC Spine: Consultant (Ongoing)

    Presentations:

    • 3:15 PM – 3:29 PM EST
      Introduction of the Spine Trauma Session

      Speaker: Osmar Moraes, MD

    • 3:30 PM – 3:44 PM EST
      Complex Fractures C1-C2

      Speaker: Eduardo de Freitas Bertolini, MD – Servidor Estadual Hospital (São Paulo - Brazil)

    • 3:44 PM – 3:59 PM EST
      Type II Odontoid Fractures in Elderly Patients

      Speaker: Timothy Chryssikos, MD, PhD – University of Maryland

    • 4:00 PM – 4:14 PM EST
      Cervical Type C Translational Injuries

      Speaker: Asdrubal Falavigna, MD – University of Caxias do Sul

    • 4:15 PM – 4:29 PM EST
      Spinal Cord Modulation for Spinal Cord Injury: Current Applications and Future Directions

      Speaker: Daniel Lu, MD PhD – UCLA Neurosurgery

    • 4:30 PM – 4:44 PM EST
      Nuances in Management of B3 Fractures in the Ankylosed Spine

      Speaker: Harry Mushlin, MD – Department of Neurological Surgery, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University

    • 4:45 PM – 5:04 PM EST
      Operative vs Conservative Approaches to Thoracolumbar Burst Fracture

      Speaker: Rodrigo Amaral, MD – Instituto de Patologia de Coluna

    • 5:05 PM – 5:24 PM EST
      Post-Traumatic Deformity: Surgical Planning

      Speaker: Anthony M. DiGiorgio, DO, MHA – Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

    • 5:25 PM – 5:45 PM EST
      Management of Sacral Injuries

      Speaker: Alecio C E S Barcelos, MD – Hospital Metropolitano de Joao Pessoa