ORTHOPAEDICRESEARCHUNIT
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
Projects
TRAUMA CARE
Collaborators
S Maqungo (Project Coordinator)
S Roche (Shoulder Surgeon)
G McCollum (Foot Surgeon)
A Nicol (Trauma Surgery UCT)
P Navsaria (Trauma Surgery UCT)
L Wallis (Emergency Care UCT)
M Held
M Keel (University of Bern)
We are faced with a high burden of gunshot wounds in our local population leading to skeletal trauma. Orthoballistics assesses the evaluation, treatment options and socioeconomic impact of these injuries.
ORTHOballistics
The emphasis is to improve the orthopaedic care for elderly patients, as one of the most vulnerable groups in our society. As part of this we are assessing the prevention, treatment, and outcome of hip fractures, one of the most costly injuries in our hospitals.
GOGO
Generalized Osteoporosis and Geriatric Orthopaedics
Collaborators
S Maqungo (Project Coordinator)
I Ross (Endocrinology UCT)
Prof Kalla (Rheumatology)
Sipho Dlamini (Infectious Diseases)
Sebastiana Kalula (Geriatric Medicine)
NJ Kauta (Orthopaedics)
M Held
Sports Orthopaedic Service
The goal of this project is to assess the incidence of sports injuries in schools and universities through a surveillance system and to improve the efficiency of care and service for patients with sports injuries in public hospitals.
SOSAFRICA
Collaborators
Dr. Held (Project Coordinator)
Prof. Roche (Shoulders)
Dr. Vrettos (Shoulder)
Dr. Von Bormann (Knees)
Dr. Hobbs (Knees)
Dr. McCollum (Foot and Ankle)
Dr. Posthumus (Excercise Science and Sports Medicine)
Dr. Van der Merwe (Sports-orthopaedics)
Efficiency & Systems
Collaborators
Dr. Held - Project Coordinator
Prof. Dunn (Spine)
Prof. Roche (Shoulders)
Dr. Vrettos (Shoulder)
Dr. Von Bormann (Knees)
Dr. Maqungo (Trauma)
AO foundation (international NGO)
Dr. Nortje (Hip/Knee arthroplasty UCT)
Dr. Grobler (Hip/Knee arthroplasty UCT)
We aim to increase the efficiency of our patient managment and measure the outcome of orthopaedic patients accurately. The main focus is to improve: Waiting lists for our patients, Referral pathways, Data managment in our hospitals, direct patient input in our service, design outcome measures for our patients.
MOOIAFRICA
Modifying Orthopaedic Outcome In AFRICA
MUTI
Musculoskeletal TB Infections
We are assessing new ways to make the diagnosis of musculoskeletal TB infections faster and more accurate. For this our focus is on automated nucleic acid amplification tests and the radiological assessment in TB patients.
Collaborators
Prof. Dunn (Project Coordinator)
Dr. Held
Dr. Laubscher (Adolescent Orthopaedic Care)
Dr. Zar (Child Health, Red Cross Hospital)
Dr. Dix-Peek (Pediatric Orthopaedic Unit, UCT)
Dr. Kilborn (Radiology Red Cross Hospital)
Dr. Candy (Radiology Groote Schuur Hospital)
Prof. Hoal (Genetics, centre of excellence, Biomedical TB research)
Dr. Thienemann (Institute of Infectious Disease)
Prof. Wilkinson (IDM, Wellcome Trust)
Infections
HIV epidemic in orthopaedics
The rate of HIV infections amongst the orthopaedic patients we treat is one of the highest in the World and influences the care of orthopaedic pathologies. We would like to give orthopaedic patients the best possible care and are therefore assessing TB/HIV coinfections, HIV in orthopaedic Trauma and HIV in acute and chronic musculoskeletal infections.
ORTHOHIVE
Collaborators
Dr. Laubscher (Project Coordinator)
Prof. Dunn (Spine)
Dr. Maqungo (Trauma)
Dr. Solomons, Dr. Roussot (Hands)
Innovation
TNT
Tools and Toys
Everyone is an inventor! With TNT we support ideas which are created or conceptualized within our team to design devices which improve orthopaedic patient outcome. Amongst others, we are working on a new shoulder replacement, a new postoperative shoulder training machine, a special surface coating of implants to prevent infections in orthopaedic megaprosthesis and a new device to treat scoliosis in children.
Collaborators
Prof. Roche (Project Coordinator)
Prof. Dunn
Dr. Vrettos
Dr. Hoskin
Dr. van der Merwe
Dr. Sivarasu (Biomechanics UCT)
Dr. Franz (Biomedical Engineering UCT)
Dr. McBride (Computational Mechanics UCT)
Titamed (industry)
BLUE
BLUESKY
anything goes
Any creative innovation advancing orthopaedics in our hospitals and beyond will be supported once our team feels it is of benefit. Currenlty, we are working on a referral app for orthopaedics.
Collaborators
Dr. McCollum (Project Coordinator)
Dr. Solomons, Dr. Roussot, Dr. Roche
Bertha Institute (Inclusive Health Innovations)
Department of the Western Cape (Health)
IT University of Cape Town
Department of ENT - Groote Schuur Hospital
Department of Ophthalmology - Groote Schuur