27^th - 29^th of February 2008 at Norwich

27th February

The Surgical Anatomy of Acetabular Dysplasia : Course Convenor - Johan Witt

28th February - St Andrews Hall

9:00 - 11:30 Emerging Hip Surgeons Session. Organisers Jim Wimhurst and Nish Chirodian (Norwich) - details

11.30 -12.00 Tea

12.00 Presentation by FIPO – Managed Care -Chair: Fares Haddad

This is what has happened in the USA. John Callaghan, Iowa

FIPO and Managed Care.
Geoffrey Glazer. Consultant General
Surgeon, St Mary’s Hospital, London. President of FIPO

The Ophthalmology Experience.
Richard Packard. Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Wellington Hospital, London. Board member FIPO. Chairman of the Association of Ophthalmologists

A View from the Private Sector
Andrew Unwin Windsor Knee clinic, founder of “One Health Group”

28th February - Blackfriar’s Hall

9.30am Registration. Coffee and biscuits.

10.00 – 12.00 Symposium: “Moving the National Joint Registry Forward”
Chairman: Peter Kay

1 pm Buffet Lunch (Blackfriars Hall and cloisters) Poster viewing

MAIN MEETING OF THE BRITISH HIP SOCIETY - St Andrews Hall

2pm Welcome to Norwich: Keith Tucker, President BHS

Symposium “The use of Long Stems in Revision THR”
Chair: Sarah Muirhead-Allwood

2.15 Sarah Muirhead-Allwood
What I have done and what I do now (Why, the decisions, pitfalls etc)

2.30 Martyn Porter and Tim Broad
Why we do what we do in Wrightington and when

2.45 Jim Wimhurst and Alban Bowers
The results of the cemented option with the long stem Exeter and the
long stem Charnley Elite

2.55 John Callaghan
USA experience

3.05 Discussion

3.15 Tea

3.40 – 5.10 Podium Presentations of scientific papers.
Chairs: Paul Gaston, Edinburgh & Peter McClardy-Smith, Oxford

4.50 Differences in immune responses between subjects with previous aseptic
loosening versus surviving THA. A Gordon, E Kiss-Toth, E Greenfield,
R. Eastell, JM Wilkinson. University of Sheffield, UK and Case Western Reserve
University, USA

5.00 Reduced duration of cephalosporin prophylaxis for femoral neck fracture surgery
is associated with a lower rate of clostridium difficile associated disease.
I Starks, G Ayub, G Whalley, J Orendi, PJ Roberts, N Maffulli. University
Hospital North Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent

5.10 Anterior approaches to the hip for the treatment of femoro-acetabular
impingement. A cadaveric study. AK Malik, JD Witt.
University College London Hospital

5.20Early experience and results for 148 surgical hip dislocations performed for
impingement. CJ Edwards, R Reddy , A Bidaye, ED Fern, MR Norton.
Royal Cornwall Hospital.

5.30 Session ends (Bar Opens)

6pm Annual General Meeting of the BHS

7.00 Bar open.

7.30 Annual Dinner in Blackfriar’s Hall (Lounge Suits)

Please note there will be no official reception, dinner will be served promptly to allow members time to meet at the end of the meal.

29th February - St Andrews Hall

8.30 - 8.45 Registration and coffee

Podium Presentations: Primary Hip Replacement and MIS
Chairs: Matthew Porteous, Bury St. Edmunds & John Albert, Norwich

8.45 Exeter-Ogee total hip Replacement using the Hardinge approach; The ten to
twelve year results. D Morgan, G Myers, K O’Dwyer. Worcester Royal Hospital

Minimum 10-Year Follow-Up of the Exeter Universal Stem in a District General
Hospital. L Young, S Duckett, A Dunn. West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds
9.05 Charnley low-frictional torque arthroplasty. Survivorship patterns: follow-up to
38 years. BM Wroblewski, PD Siney, PA Fleming, B Purbach
The John Charnley Research Institute, Wrightington Hospital, UK

Triple tapered cemented C-stem. A minimum 10 year follow up. B Purbach,
BM Wroblewski, PD Siney, PA Fleming, PR Kay
The John Charnley Research Institute, Wrightington Hospital, UK

9.25 12-16 Year Follow-up of the Harris-Galante I acetabular component in patients
less than 50 years of age. M Utting, M Raghuvanshi, R Amirfeyz, AW Blom,
ID Learmonth, GC Bannister.
Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Southmead Hospital, Bristol

Medium to long term survivorship of the Plasmacup.
N W Emms, J M Wilkinson, I Stockley & A J Hamer.
Northern General Hospital, Sheffield

9.45 Minimally Invasive Hip Replacement – A Randomised Controlled Trial.
RJK Khan, S Haebich, D Maor .
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia

Single incision posterior approach minimally invasive total hip arthroplasty is a
safe, effective and reproducible technique in a district general hospital. A
randomised controlled trial.
DJ Farr, KS Conn, JM Britton, JDF Calder, GJ Stranks
The Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke

Mid-term results on Microhip: an extension table free anterior procedure without
restrictions. MC Michel, P Witschger.
Münsingen Orthopaedic Centre, Münsingen – Switzerland

10.15 A randomised prospective double-blind trial comparing x-linked with
conventional polyethylene in THA. 2-4 year results.
P A Devane, J. G Horne. New Zealand

10.25 Short-term results of total hip replacement performed by visiting surgeons at a
treatment centre. SP White, SA Jones, AW John.
Department of Orthopaedics, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

10.35 A patient centred pathway decreases length of stay and improves patient
satisfaction after total hip replacement.
C Olyslaegers, T W Wainwright, R G Middleton,
The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

10.45 Coffee, biscuits and Poster viewing

11.10 - 11.30 Symposium: Improved Efficiency
Chair: Colin Howie
Delivering Quality & Value in Hip and knee Replacement. Mark Emerton. Leeds
Overnight stay THR & how you do it. Hugh Apthorpe, Hastings.

11.30 – 12.00 Metal on Metal Update – Snowflake or snowstorm?
Chair: Clare Marx CBE

Notification of problems to MRHA. Andy Crosbie
Response. John Skinner (RNOH & Imperial College retrieval study.)

12.00 Report by the BHS travelling Fellows 2007

12.15 Presidential Guest Lecture: John Callaghan (Iowa)
“Why did we leave the Charnley Hip Replacement?”

13.00 Buffet Lunch, Blackfriar’s Hall. Poster viewing.

Podium Presentations of scientific papers. Hip Resurfacing.
Chairs: Graham Gie, Exeter, & John O’Hara, Birmingham

13.45 Pseudo-tumours after hip resurfacing. H Pandit, S Glyn-Jones, R Gundle,
D Whitwell, CLM Gibbons, S Ostlere, N Athanasou, HS Gill,
P McLardy-Smith, DW Murray. Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford

Revision of failed hip resurfacing due to metal hypersensitivity (ALVAL).
AR Karva, TN Board, Mohan S, ML Porter.
The Centre for Hip Surgery, Wrightington Hospital

The painful metal on metal hip replacement: early experience from a UK retrieval
service. A Hart, P Maggiore, A Sandison, B Sampson, S Muirhead-Allwood,
P Cann, J Skinner. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the Royal
National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust, London.

Pain in females after metal-on-metal hip resurfacing: are we under-diagnosing
metal ion hypersensitivity? SS Jameson, DJ Langton, AVF Nargol
University Hospital of North Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom

14.25 Heat generated during femoral head preparation in resurfacing hip arthroplasty.
R P Baker, M Kilshaw, M Pabbruwe, A Blom, G C Bannister.
Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Bristol, UK

14.35 Functional outcome following Birmingham Hip Resurfacing Arthroplasty –
Wrightington Experience. S Mohan, TN Board, J Fishwick, V Jeffs, ML Porter
The Centre for Hip Surgery, Wrightington Hospital, UK

14.45 Femoral neck thinning is a rare complication of resurfacing using an uncemented
Cormet 2000 hip resurfacing implant through a Ganz approach. Fern ED,
Williams D, Reddy R, Norton MR. Cornwall Hip Unit, Truro, Cornwall

14.55 Birmingham hip resurfacing arthroplasty: a series of 117 consecutive hips with a
minimum 5 year follow up. GNA Heilpern, NN Shah, MJF Fordyce
Kent and Sussex Hospital, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England

The Birmingham hip resurfacing. 5 year clinical and radiographic results from a
District General Hospital. B. Ollivere, S. Duckett, A. August, M. Porteous Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, West Suffolk Hospital.

Prospective consecutive multicentre study of 983 DePuy ASRtm hip resurfacings.
Analysis of all failures and clinical follow-up of 293 cases at 2 to 4 years.
Cobb AG*, Oakeshott RD** and O’Sullivan T*** .
Epsom General Hospital, Surrey, UK **Sportsmed SA, Adelaide, Australia.
***Whitfield Clinic, Waterford, Ireland

15.25 Tea and biscuits, poster viewing

15.40 – 16.40 Symposium: The use of blood in THR. Chair: Keith Tucker

The National Audit. Hari Boralessa, National blood transfusion service

Ways of reducing blood loss. Andy Hamer, Sheffield.

How far can we take anaemia? What are the dangers and how can we offset them? Daffyd Thomas, Consultant Anaesthetist & Intensivist, Swansea

16.40 – 17.10 Podium Presentations of Scientific Papers. Chair: Derek Pegg

16.40 Maximum surgical blood ordering schedule for revision hip and knee
arthroplasty. C P Challand, D Mahadevan, A Clarke, J Keenan.
Department of Trauma & Orthopaedics, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust,
Derriford Hospital, Plymouth

Analysis of predictors of transfusion in hip arthroplasty.
CR Lawrence, D Raj, GS Keene
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.

17.00 Early aggressive management of slipped upper femoral epiphysis following the
Bernese philosophy.
Fern ED, Easwaran P, Norton MR. Cornwall Hip Unit, Truro, Cornwall

17.10 Report by Callum McBryde, McMinn Scholar 2006-7

17.25 Award of Prizes from 2008 BHS – Keith Tucker

Handing over of Presidency to Peter Kay, President 2008/09

17.30 End of Meeting

Next meeting Manchester March 2009