Prevention Group

Luciana Marzella the leader of the Hand Trauma Prevention Group, head of the hand trauma and microsurgery service at Galeazzi Sant’Ambrogio Hospital Milan. She graduated from the medical school in 2001 and specialized in Orhopaedic and Traumatology in 2006. Resident at the Institut de La Main in Paris in 2005-2006. In 2015 Doctor Marzella obtained the EBSH Diploma and in 2016 the Microsurgery Diploma at the Columbia University, New York followed in 2017 by the Advanced Microsurgery Diploma again at the Columbia University in New York. Doctor Marzella is Teacher and Co-ordinator of the SICM Anatomy Dissection Course from 2019 to Present day. Her major interest is in Hand and Wrist traumatic and elective pathologies and Vascular Malformations of the Upper Limb. She provided many national and international presentations. Doctor Marzella is frequently called as guest in many National TV shows dedicated to health information. She’s an active member of the Italian Society for Surgery of the Hand where she is President of the Professional Activities and Rembursement Committee, Member of the SICM Medicolegal Committee, the Research Innovation and tecnologies commitee. Doctor Marzella is also a member of many other Italian scientific societies including SIOT, SIM, SISAV and AITOG. She is an international member of IWAS, IBRA, AACA and ASSH of which she is als a member of the Relations Committee. As member of both relationship committees she aims to be a brigde between European and North-American societies for the hand.

Contact: prevention@fessh.com

Mahdi Siala is an upper limb surgeon working in Nice and Cannes, France. He is a senior consultant at the Hand to shoulder Riviera Center. Graduating medical school from Paris Descartes University in Paris (currently Paris cité University), he did his surgical training in Toulouse, France and a year at Noumea, New Caledionia focusing on hand and general trauma alongside elective surgery. In 2018 he joined the Kaplan institute in Barcelona for a 6 months fellowship in hand and wrist surgery under the direction of Marc Garcià-Elias. Dr SIALA is also a medical expert for court in litigious surgical cases. Academically Dr Siala holds various diplomas in hand, shoulder, sports and orthopedic surgery and passed the European Board of Orthopedics and Traumatology (EBOT) the same year as the FESSH examination, the European Board of Hand Surgery (EBHS) in 2022. He authored several articles and book chapters both in hand and orthopedic surgery and has peer reviewed articles for several scientific journals (Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery, Hand suregery and rehabilitation, international orthopaedics and journal of hand and microsurgery). Dr Siala is also a teaching member of the french college of orthopedic surgeons and the french college of hand surgery teachers.

Marlène O’Donoghue studied human medicine in Lübeck, Germany, and is a board-certified specialist in Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery. She works as a consultant in the Department of Hand Surgery and Upper Extremity at Waldfriede Hospital in Berlin (Director: PD Dr. med. Martin Lautenbach), where she focuses on hand surgery and injuries of the upper limb, with a particular emphasis on rheumatic diseases. She is an active member of the German Society for Hand Surgery (DGH) and part of its extended board. As an engaged member of the Young Forum of the DGH, she is involved in promoting professional exchange, education, and networking among early-career hand surgeons in Germany. She regularly participates in national and international congresses and contributes to various academic and training activities in the field of hand and upper extremity surgery.

 

Referee Members and their topics:

Ian Mc Nab (UK): Firework injuries , Hand Injury European day/week
Zoe Daliana (Greece): Wrist fracture and scaphoid treatment guidelines
Will Mason (UK): Wrist fracture and scaphoid treatment guidelines
Thomas Brockamp (Germany): Hand Shake initiative (focusing on preventing and enhancing workplace safety related to power saws) and Party Project (a trauma prevention program involving educating young people about injuries in trauma hospitals)
Martin Leixnering (Austria): Escooter project (Electric scooter injury data collection)
Dionysia Vasdeki (Greece): Hand burn injuries prevention project
Isabella Fassola (Italy): Cat injuries and sailing as a therapy – isabella.fassola@klinikumevb.de
Aurelie Iniesta (France): Avocado injuries
Fidel Cayon Geraldo Zarate : South America table discussion ( fireworks , avocado injuries)
Collaboration with South America association help to build international campaigns.
Marlene O Donoghue (Germany): Volleyball injuries prevention
Sophia Syngouna (Greece): Naval industry education project to avoid naval injuries
Luciana Marzella (Italy): Domestic injuries prevention
Andrea Leti Acciaro (Italy): Prevention campaign to avoid children hand injuries
Camilo Chaves (France): Dubert project
Marc Leroy (France): Severity score, classification of hand injuries, Hand Shake initiative (focusing on preventing and enhancing workplace safety related to power saws)
Lucy Cogswell (UK): Punch injuries prevention involving art and fashion to attract attention on increase of violence and punch injuries 
Jörg Bahm (Germany, Plexus Kinder Association): Brachial plexus injury prevention
Mandala Leliveld (Beligum): Work related injuries prevention, Hand Shake initiative (focusing on preventing and enhancing workplace safety related to power saws)
Mahdi Siala (France): Osteoporosis prevention
Nicola Simeonov (Bulgaria): Brachial plexus injury prevention, knife safety

Projects seeking for partners to join

  • Isabella Fassola: for the project of “Risk factors for complications following cat bite injuries of the hand”. Isabella seeks for statistical analysis expert for the analysis of the data collected. isabella.fassola@klinikumevb.de
  • Isabella Fassola: for the project of ” Sailing injuries and Sailing therapy” Isabella seeks for colleagues (Hand Surgeons and Hand Therapists) to discuss strategies  to promote education, national and professional training in the field of sailing therapy. isabella.fassola@klinikumevb.de

Downloadable materials to promote prevention

These materials are to translate to your language and use in promotion of prevention.

Booklet on domestic hand injuries_SICM_2024
Booklet for children
Color and learn for children
Incidents booklet

Sport injuries prevention materials:
Flyer Volleyball injuries prevention

Other interesting links regarding prevention from FESSH member countries

The Prevention of Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth:    www.partyprogram.com
Hand Injury Triage: https://handinjurytriageapp.bssh.ac.uk/start-page
https://handinjurytriageapp.bssh.ac.uk
Standards of Care in Hand Trauma:
https://www.bssh.ac.uk/bssh_standards_of_care_in_hand_trauma_.aspx
Brachial Plexus Injuries information material:
A Child Like Herbie (English translation of the original German booklet directed at famillies with a child with brachial plexus injury):
https://plexuskinder.de/baby
https://plexuskinder.de/achildlikeherbie
https://plexuskinder.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/A_Child_Like_Herbie_301123.pdf
Animated explanation about brachial plexus injuries with Herbie at YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@Plexuskinder
Erb’s Palsy explained (Brachial Plexus Injury)  https://youtu.be/EoWe_u0Esxc
Sports with Erb’s Palsy / a Brachial Plexus Injury  https://youtu.be/mbyLj_abQLo
Prevention group collaboration with the French Association: https://www.reseaumain.fr/gcs-rpm-idf/avril-en-main/#:~:text=Pr%C3%A9venir%20les%20accidents%20des%20mains,des%20accidents%20de%20la%20main.

https://www.youtube.com/@rpmidf/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@rpmidf/streams

Preventing avocado injuries: Avocado injury prevention video

Hand Trauma Prevention Meetings

Seventh Meeting

Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 19-22 October 2023

Sixth Meeting

Skiathos, Greece, 3-4 September 2021

Fifth Meeting

Torino, Italy, 23-24 November 2018.

Fourth Meeting

Oxford, UK, 16-17 September 2016

Third Meeting

Vienna, Austria, 20-21 October 2014.
www.handchirurgen.at

Second Meeting

The second Hand Trauma Prevention Meeting was held in Berlin on 15th October 2012. Richarda Boettcher as president of the meeting collected important data from many countries from all over Europe.

First Meeting

The First Hand trauma prevention meeting was held in Bursa (Turkey) on June 25th, 2009
This meeting was organised by T Kaleli (Turkey), T Dubert (France) and Ph Bellemere (France) on behalf of the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand (FESSH) and the Hand Trauma Committee (HTC)

This important event was a first attempt to give a comprehensive view of the importance of hand trauma.

    • In summary
  • Hand trauma is the first cause of sick leave following work related accidents.
  • A total of 8.8 million accidents occur in Europe every year.
  • Health care (surgery, rehabilitation, hospitalisation) expenses represent only about 20% of the total expenses as opposed to financial compensation (paid sick leave and sequelae) that account for 80%
  • The incidence of work-related Hand trauma shows unequal distribution among European Countries (25% to 60%).
  • Efficient prevention plans can reduce hand trauma in work place by up to 50%
  • Lack of prevention in daily life activities is alarming

The data collected in this meeting is a valuable justification for prioritizing Hand Injury Prevention on the health policy agenda of the European Union.