Program GKS meeting „Osteosynthese International 2025“ (final)

Friday, December 5th

09.00 - 09.30 Welcome President GKS & Military staff/ President BAKS & Meeting Committee
09.30 – 10.15 Masquelet (Marc Hückstädt 🇩🇪, Cristina Oljeda-Thies 🇪🇸)
8 min talks
1.
The Halle „Schaschlik“ or the Pearl String Technique M Hückstädt
2.
10 a Follow up Masquelet on long tubular bones L v. Negenborn
3.
Masquelet experience from BG Klinikum Hamburg J Lischka
4.
Tips & Tricks C Oljeda-Thies

10.15 - 11:00 Transport Ilizarov/Monorail/ Alignment (Gerhard Achatz 🇩🇪, Heiko Baumgartner 🇩🇪)
6 min talks
1.
Monorail Tips and Tricks G Achatz
2.
Ilizarov - monosegmental and alignment H Baumgartner
3.
Ilizarov - bisegmental A Feller
4.
Tibial nailing after failed Ilizarov fixation in a Gustilo type IIIA tibial fracture A Vahabi 🇹🇷
5.
Ilizarov-assisted tibial nailing - do we really need suprapatellar approach? A Chelnokov 🇮🇱

11.00 - 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 - 12.00 PABST (Ulrik Kaehler Olesen 🇩🇰/ Gregor Reiter 🇩🇪)
8 min talks
1.
PABST in LULU G Reiter
2.
Double PABST (bisegmental) UK Olesen
3.
Tips & Tricks UK Olesen

12.00 - 12.45 Bone Transport Nail (Steffen Langwald 🇩🇪/ Philipp Lanz 🇦🇹)
8 min talks
1.
Indication, Tips & Tricks P Lanz (2x8 minutes)
2.
BTN Knee Arthrodesis BWK Berlin
3.
Fitbone versus Precice lengthening & transport nails (what needs to be taken into account) P Thaller

12.45- 14.00 Lunch & Workshops
Castle Schönhausen guided tour (Official residence Wilhelm Pieck/ Guest apartment Fidel Castro)

14.00 - 14.45 Transport and Cables (Cornelius Grimme 🇩🇪/ Dennis Vogt 🇩🇪)
8 min talks
1.
Indication, Tips & Tricks C Grimme
2.
Bisegmental, Ring and Cable, Individualized Nail and Failure Analysis D Vogt
3.
Case presentation, Ring and Cable J Spinnen
4.
Large Segmental Bone Defects P Lanz 🇦🇹

14.45- 15.45 3D Implants/ Cages/ Periprosthetic Fx/ miscellaneous (Georg Osterhoff 🇩🇪/ Wolfgang Ertel 🇩🇪)
6 min talks
1.
Femoral Head Allograft Augmentation in Tibiotalocalcaneal Arthrodesis with Intramedullary Hindfoot Implant B Miller, D Seligson 🇺🇸
2.
Intramedullary Fixation as a Supplement in Acute Trauma and Other Uses Across the Space of Foot and Ankle Orthopedics B Miller, D Seligson 🇺🇸
3.
Total loss of talus and reconstruction with 3D titanium custom made implant A Herlyn
4.
Single Step Septic Tibiotalocalcaneal Arthrodesis with Soft tissue Reconstruction N Spranger
5.
Patient specific 3D printed titanium implants for glenohumeral joint fusion in war-related proximal humeral bone defects: a single-center experience from Vinnytsia Military Hospital Y Lazarenko 🇺🇦, Oleksandr Fomin 🇺🇦, Vladyslav Bibliak 🇺🇦, Igor Sobko 🇺🇦, F Gilbert
6.
Cage reconstruction for segmental bone defects W Ertel
7.
Problem Prevention and Problem Solving in Nailing of Proximal Femur Fractures W Friedl
8.
Küntscher nail in Reconstruction of Periprosthetic Fractures I Terjajevs 🇱🇻

15.45 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:45 Open fracture treatment and prevention of infection (Nikolai Spranger 🇩🇪/ Philipp Kobbe 🇩🇪)
6 min talks
1.
Antibiotic coated nails R Zamora/ D Seligson 🇺🇸
2.
Handmade antibacterial coated implants H Baumgartner
3.
Antibiotic nails: How I do it, when and why ? D Hack 🇺🇸
4.
Higher Reoperation Rates in Planned, Staged Treatment of Open Fractures Compared with Fix-and-Close: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis R Zura 🇺🇸
5. SAFE DualCore nail. Biologically Active Implant Releasing Antibiotics. Experience in 220 patients N Lopes 🇵🇹

16.45 - 17.30 Infected and Non-infected Nonunion & History (Peter Thaller 🇩🇪, Metin Kucukkaya 🇹🇷)
6 min talks
1.
The BG nonunion study – diagnostic of low grad infected nonunions S Hackl
2.
Classic algorythm of nonunion treatment M Kucukkaya
3.
History of Ilizarov Infected and Non-infected Nonunion Treatment I Kolesnyk 🇺🇦
4.
Different Options in Nonunion Treatment using Callostasis L Hildebrandt
5.
Compression Distraction Nonunion Study P Thaller
6.
An Ilizarov-based Technique Of Closed Intramedullary Nailing In Fractures And Malunions Of The Proximal Humerus With Varus Deformity A Chelnokov 🇮🇱

18.00 - 18.15 Past, “Present” and Future of Ilizarov (ASAMI) (Gamal Hosny 🇪🇬)
18.15 - 18.30 Past, “Present” and Future of Kuentscher (David Seligson 🇺🇸)
Get together 18.30/ 19.00
Announcement:
GKS Meeting „Osteosynthese International“ 2026
4th Military Surgery Meeting on Bone Reconstruction and Orthoplastic Surgery 2026

Saturday, December 6th

08.00- 09.00 Early bird (3 case presentations) & workshops (Steffen Langwald 🇩🇪, Heiko Baumgartner 🇩🇪)
09.00 - 09.45 Dead Space Management (David Seligson 🇺🇸, Ulrich Kneser 🇩🇪)
8 min talks
1.
Options of Dead Space Management C Oljeda-Thies 🇪🇸
2.
The bead pouch vs vac trial R Zura 🇺🇸
3.
Biological solutions U Kneser
4.
Dead Space Reduction using Open Transport D Smolyanets 🇺🇦

09.45 - 10.30 Nonvasc. vs Vasc. Fibula, Med Femur Condyle, Vasc. Periosteal Stripe
(Thomas Kremer 🇩🇪, Frederick Hernekamp 🇩🇪)
6 min talks
1.
When to choose nonvasc vs vasc fibula, alternative strategies. F Hernekamp
2.
Fibula pro Tibia transport G Hosny 🇪🇬
3.
Capanna technique in segmental bone reconstruction T Kremer
4.
Masquelet with non vasc fibula (the Stonehenge plastic) L v. Negenborn
5.
TTT tibial transverse transport P Thaller

10.30 - 10.45 Coffee
10.45 - 11.15 Orthoplastic approach lessons learned (Scott Levin 🇺🇸)
11.15 - 12.15 Ukraine/Riga-Ukraine/Landstuhl/Berlin experience
(Mykola Pempko 🇺🇦, Martins Malzubris 🇱🇻, Leila Harhaus-Wähner 🇩🇪)
10 min talks
1.
Ukraine experience, challenges and needs M Parubets 🇺🇦
2. EU experience; How to treat a heavily injured hand in a setting with limited resources. O Liebermanis 🇱🇻
3.
Landstuhl experience R Zura 🇺🇸
4.
Orthoplastic training in Berlin BWK, UKB, Charite Berlin

12.15 - 13.30 Lunch & workshops
Castle Schönhausen guided tour (Official residence Wilhelm Pieck/ Guest apartment Fidel Castro)

GKS General Assembly (12.15 - 13.00) / GKS Board meeting (separate room 14.30 - 15.15)

13.30 - 14.30 Single vs multi step soft tissue reconstruction (Gamal Hosny 🇪🇬, Scott Levin 🇺🇸)
8 min talks
1.
Timing of Soft Tissue Reconstruction in Orthoplastics U Kneser
2.
Single Step Reconstruction in Neglected War Injuries G Hosny
3.
Comparison of treatment outcomes with primary vs. secondary transfer to a Level 1 trauma center for Gustilo-Anderson >= Type IIIB fractures – a systematic review L Harhaus-Wähner
4.
Crossleg Maneuver and Fibula Transport for Soft Tissue Reconstruction M Stierholz
5.
Local vs free flap in Ukraine regarding Microsurgery and OR Capacity M Malzubris 🇱🇻

14.30 - 15.15 Experimental/ Individualized Reconstruction (Vera Jaecker 🇩🇪/M Laubach 🇩🇪)
6 min talks
1.
Assessing critical and strategic materials in orthopaedic and trauma surgery L Weimer, M Laubach
2.
3D printed solutions: from the idea to the product L Shopperly
3.
Hybrid Polymer Scaffolds – Possible off the shelf solution for segmental bone defects and dead space management J Spinnen
4.
Biomechanical considerations in fracture healing T Tjardes
5.
3D printed implants for long bone defect reconstruction: translational challenges, clinical potential, and outcomes of an international consensus conference M Laubach

15.15 - 15.30 Coffee
15.30 - 16.15 Osseointegration/Nerve & Functional Reconstruction (Thorsten Tjardes 🇩🇪, Jonas Kolbenschlag 🇩🇪)
10 min talks
1.
Classic Prosthetics vs Osseointegration P Schröter
2.
Functional Reconstruction (TMR, Muscle and Tendon Transfer) J Kolbenschlag
3.
LRS in Treatment of Periimplant Fx after Osseointegration B Willner

Summary & Farwell