New Stage for Sino-Euro Cooperation on Ortho Trauma Speciality Development

4月8日，正值春日生机盎然时节，东莞中医院迎来了第二次创伤骨科客座教授项目的启动。奥地利外科学会候任主席（2025年）、萨尔茨堡大学附属医院大骨科主任Freude教授再次访问东莞中医院创伤外科。在欢迎仪式上，东莞市中医院院长邓伟均院长、大骨科卢国樑主任、创伤科梁浩标主任、足踝科谢庆祥主任以及各创伤、骨科骨干成员亲切迎接Freude教授再次到东莞市中医院创伤骨科交流指导。邓伟均院长为教授介绍东莞市中医院创伤骨科过去半年的新发展，并为Freude介绍东莞市中医院即将在年底落成的骨科新大楼。借由东莞市中医院创伤、骨科的一系列客座教授交流项目，不断让医院的外科治疗水平对接国际领先标准，加之医院的百年传承中医骨伤内调外敷正骨等精华，未来东莞市中医院将迎来独树一帜而又兼具现代医学顶尖水平的创伤与骨科学科发展。欢迎仪式结束后，Freude教授与梁浩标主任团队马上投入到临床工作交流中，时值创伤骨科收治56位住院病人，本周工作量巨大，也能预示着交流成果的丰硕。梁浩标主任重点与Freude教授分享一例多发骨盆骨折合并创伤性休克、膀胱破裂的病例。梁主任与Freude教授在讨论中分享各自在面对如此病例时选择的入路和复位重建顺序，并在患者的膀胱、泌尿道感染影响骨盆骨折治疗的处理达成共识。中国老年创伤骨折病人随着人口老龄化愈加常见，Freude教授以其十几年来治疗老年创伤骨折的经验分享，与梁主任在一周中都讨论了许多关于老年人创伤骨折的预防、诊断、治疗、术后护理心得。随后，Freude教授与梁主任及创伤骨科团队前往病房，查看需要重点查体病人情况，并讨论后续的手术治疗方案。Freude教授在与梁浩标主任团队交流时发现中国人骨盆一处解剖结构与欧洲，尤其德国人的形状与厚度存在不同，提出与梁浩标主任团队可在此方向进行多中心双盲对照研究，各在本中心抽取一定样本进行对比研究，获得的有效成果可在国际期刊发表。这不仅有望为东莞市中医院科研项目的发展做出贡献，也为更好研究不同人种的骨盆相关部位结构骨折复位治疗及后续假体的研发带来重要的参考文献。

On April 8, 2024, amid the vibrant spring season, Dongguan Hospital of TCM embraced the launch of the second Visiting Professor Project in Ortho Trauma Specialties. Prof. Freude, President-Elect (2025) of the Austrian Society of Surgery and Head of the Clinic for Orthopedics and Traumatology, University Hospital of Salzburg, once again visited the Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics in Dongguan Hospital of TCM. During the welcome ceremony, President DENG Weijun, Director LU Guoliang from the Ortho Trauma Wards, Director LIANG Haobiao from the Department of Traumatology, Director XIE Qingxiang from the Department of Foot and Ankle, as well as the backbone members of Trauma and orthopedic departments greeted Prof. Freude warmly for his second visit to the hospital and the department. President DENG Weijun briefed Prof. Freude on the development of the Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics of the hospital in the past five months and introduced the new building to be completed as an Ortho-Trauma Center by the end of 2024. Through a series of visiting professor exchange projects, the Departments of Trauma and Orthopaedics in the hospital can align with the international leading standards of surgical treatment, coupled with the hospital's centuries-old legacy of Chinese medicine and bone-setting essence and become both distinctive and top-level specialties with modern medical trauma and orthopedics development. At the end of the welcome ceremony, Prof. Freude and the team of Director LIANG Haobiao immediately engaged themselves in exchanges on clinical practice. The inpatient cases at the moment amounted to 56, indicating a huge workload for the week but also a fruitful outcome of this exchange. Director LIANG shared a polytrauma case involving pelvic fractures, traumatic shock, and bladder rupture with Prof Freude. Then they discussed how they would select the approach and the sequence of reduction and reconstruction for such cases during surgeries. They reached a consensus on the management of the patient's bladder and urinary tract infections, which in this case, already affected the treatment of the pelvic fracture. As the population ages in China, trauma and fractures in the geriatric population will become more and more common, Prof. Freude has profound clinical experience in treating trauma and fractures in the geriatric population,and during his one-week visit to the hospital, he exchanged his knowledge and experience on the topic with Director LIANG, sharing how to prevent, diagnose and treat trauma and fractures in the geriatric population and how to take care of the patients in the postoperative stage. Later on, Prof. Freude together with Director LIANG and his team went to the ward to have a check-up on the targeted patients, and discussed about the following surgical treatment. In between one difficult case discussion, Prof. Freude noticed that there is an anatomic structure difference in the pelvis between Chinese people and Europeans, especially Germans, which is different in shape and thickness. He proposed to conduct a multi-centre double-blind controlled study with Director LIANG's team in this spot. He detailed that each of them can collect a certain number of cases for comparative study in their own centre, and the effective results obtained could be published in international journals. If this works, the research result would not only expected to contribute to the development of the scientific research programs of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Dongguan Hospital (Dongguan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine) but may also provide important references for further studies of the treatment of pelvic fracture reduction in different ethnic groups and even the subsequent development of related implants.