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AIMS

The goal of the Hand Trauma Group of the Clinical Practice Committee is to improve standards of care for emergency hand trauma in Europe.

In order to achieve this goal, the Group is responsible for the ongoing strategy for the European Emergency Hand Trauma Network and the accreditation process for participating Centers.

The Group

  1. Collect data from participating centers
  2. Define the standards for delivery of emergency hand trauma services
  3. Sets the Inclusion Criteria for the European Emergency Hand Trauma Network and the Accreditation process of Hand Trauma and Replantation Centers 
  4. Analyze the data so that differences and similarities between the European countries can be identified and discussed

The Group encourages the participation and collaboration of all countries to join the European Emergency Network of Hand Trauma and Replantation Centers.

THE EUROPEAN EMERGENCY HAND TRAUMA NETWORK

It is recognized that emergency hand trauma services are delivered by many well qualified hand trauma surgeons who do not necessarily work in hospitals with 24 hour dedicated emergency hand surgery teams.

The proposed network exists for the purposes of collaboration in audit, research, teaching and training. The accreditation process recognizes those centres delivering services to the highest standards as Hand Trauma and Replantation Centers (HTRC).

A Hand Trauma and Replantation Center (HTRC) can apply to be accredited as part of the network following the criteria defined by the former Hand Trauma Committee.

If the applicant unit does not fulfill the criteria to become an HTRC, the unit will be placed on a list of recognized “Hand Trauma Units”, provided that it fulfils a minimum of requirements, and will participate in the hand trauma network.  The Hand Trauma Units (HTU) will not be audited, are not certified by FESSH. Some minimum criteria are also necessary for Hand Trauma Units listed in the trauma network.

The criteria for the units of trauma network are suitable of changing once a year by the Group and FESSH Council.

The national representatives of FESSH Hand Trauma and the board of each national hand society could check the data provided by their national units or centres if required by the Group and report problems if any.

The recognition of Accredited Hand Trauma and Replantation Centers  will be the responsibility of the Group.

A validation of the HTRCs (audits) will be undertaken, randomly, by members of the committee and one FESSH Hand Trauma national representative.

In order to build a real European cooperation through this network, two national representatives for each FESSH country will be appointed by the boards of each National Hand Surgery Society. (Duties of the National Representatives)

MEET THE MEMBERS

Guillaume Prunieres MD, works as hand surgeon in a FESUM Hand Surgery Center in Haguenau, France (Fondation Saint François). Orthopedic surgeon trained at the hand surgery department of Strasbourg University Hospital.

Simon Oeckenpöhler, MD works as a consultant hand and trauma surgeon at the University Hospital of Münster in north rhine westphalia, Germany. He was trained as an orthopedic surgeon but found his deep interest and specialization in hand surgery. Since 2019 he is member of the extended board of the German Society for Hand Surgery. His current main field of interest is wrist surgery an ligament reconstruction.

Sarah Tucker is a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK. She specializes in complex reconstruction following extremity trauma. She is currently Chair of the Trauma Committee of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand and has led the work on national guidelines for hand trauma standards and triaging hand trauma to specialist services. She also has an interest in global surgery and is chair of the British Foundation for International Reconstructive Surgical Training.

Ignacio Roger de Oña, M.D. is the chief of the microsurgery unit at Fremap hospital and Ruber International Hospital both in Madrid. He trained has an orthopaedic surgeon in Madrid and then specialized in reconstructive microsurgery with Dr. Pedro Cavadas in Valencia and in hand surgery at Kleinert Institute for hand and microsurgery in Louisville USA. His field of interest is hand surgery and reconstructive microsurgery of the limbs.

Andrii Lysak, MD, FEBHS, works as a hand, trauma, and microsurgeon at the department of “Microsurgery and reconstructive surgery of upper extremity” of SI “Institute of traumatology and orthopedics of NAMS of Ukraine” in Kyiv, Ukraine. Dr. Lysak was trained as an orthopedic surgeon but found his interest in hand, peripheral nerve, and brachial plexus surgery. And from the beginning of 2022 – treat patients with gunshot hand injuries. Since 2012 is a member of the Ukrainian Hand Surgery Society and, since 2015 – secretary of the Ukrainian Hand Surgery Society. Since 2022 is an overseas member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. His main field of interest is peripheral nerve and brachial plexus injury and repair, using regenerative technologies in nerve surgery and nerve regeneration from basic science to clinical application.


Stefan Meuser, MD, FEBHS, works as a consultant at the Department for Hand- and
Plastic Surgery at the Helios Clinic Bonn/Rhine-Sieg in Northrhine
Westphalia/Germany. He specialized in traumatology and orthopedics as well as
plastic and reconstructive surgery. One of his main interests is the reconstruction and
global treatment of complex injuries to the hand and wrist.