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International Surgeons Boost Trauma Skills at UCSF Summit

http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/09/1088... Trauma surgeon Samir Soomro, MD, traveled more than 7,600 miles to San Francisco with the singular goal of helping patients back home in his native Pakistan. "Our trauma patients are mostly from auto traffic accidents," said Soomro, who practices out of Larkana, a city in the southeastern portion of Pakistan. "And apart from road traffic accidents, we have bomb blasts injuries and firearm injuries." He, along with more than 50 international surgeons from 17 developing countries, came to San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center last week to attend UC San Francisco's trauma summit, led by orthopaedic surgeons and plastic surgeons from UCSF and University of Southern California. "Our thought was we do a good job of trying to teach techniques of fixing bones but we need to do a better job of helping orthopaedic surgeons deal with soft tissue -- the muscles, the skin -- that gets damaged," said R. Richard Coughlin, MD, MPH, a UCSF orthopaedic surgeon and founder of the Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology (IGOT). "These surgeons take home a skill set that they immediately can apply to a number of patients that are sitting under their care in these hospital beds." Soomro and others made the trek halfway around the world to learn techniques from UCSF surgeons that could save their patients' limbs -- and in some cases, lives. IGOT, which sponsors this trauma course, was started by faculty and resident of UCSF in 2006 to improve the health care of underserved populations affected by orthopaedic disease and trauma. The goal of this institute is to partner with educational institutions at home and abroad to develop strategies to less the burden of musculoskeletal conditions. Video shot and produced by Leland Kim.