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Orthopaedics

ORTHOPAEDICS

Established in 1999. The department of Orthopaedics included in the M.B.B.S Course and offers Post graduate MS program in Orthopaedics. In addition the department of orthopaedics has recognized guides for the interdisciplinary Ph.D program of Nitte University. The department has enough staff as per the requirements of the medical council of India (MCI). It tenders daily OPD services with speciality clinics and has high rate of occupancy in its in patients wards both male and female wards. It has adequate infrastructural facilities for providing clinical training for undergraduate and post graduate students. The departmental library has 148 titles and 26 periodicals.

The department provides excellent training opportunities for clinical training. Faculty adopts learner centric methods of education such as small group discussions and student seminars, speciality clinics like Paediatric Clinic, Back ache clinic, Neurology Clinic and Rheumatology clinic runs simultaneously on OPD days and provide advanced training opportunities for post graduate students. Department has integrated teaching programme with the department of anatomy and physiotherapy. Teaching with audio visual aids and extensive use of CD-ROMs as learning materials. Permanent display of surgical and orthotics and artificial limbs in a departmental museum are some of the measure taken to engage students effectively. Facilities for two way audio-visual communications from OT to the seminar hall for live demonstration of surgeries have been developed to aid the teaching learning process.
Regular internal assessment tests provide a mechanism for continuous student monitoring and identification of slow learners. An academic counseling program with faculty mentorship is offered for slow learners. Regular post graduate seminars and journal clubs and case presentation are conducted as part of MS program in orthopaedics.
The department is well equipped with instruments like arthroscopy instruments for total knee replacement and total hip replacement. The department encourages student’s participation in research.

The department collects anonymous appraisal of teaching faculty from the students. Such feedback is made available to the respective faculty members to self analyse their strengths and weakness in their teaching skills, following such self analysis. The faculty member discusses their feedback with the departmental head to identify area which they need to improve in and plan corrective measures to improve their teaching.

Year of establishment : 1999

Doctors available

SI.No      Staff Name   Qualification   Designation
1 Dr.H Ravindranath Rai MS Ortho, D.Ortho Professor & HOD
2 Dr.B Jayaprakash Shetty MS Ortho, D.Ortho Professor
3 H.K Vishwanath MS, D.Ortho, MBBS Professor
4 Dr. Lawrence Mathias MS Ortho Professor
5 Dr. Vikram Shetty D,Ortho,DNB ortho Associate Professor
6 Dr. Siddharth M Shetty DNB Ortho Associate Professor
7 Dr. Ashwin MS Ortho Associate Professor
8 Dr. Deepak Hegde D,Ortho,DNB ortho Associate Professor
9 Dr. Dileep K S DNB ortho Assistant Professor
10 Dr. Sanath Kumar D,Ortho,DNB ortho Assistant Professor
11

Dr.RajeshKumar Tekkati

MBBS,MS ortho Senior Resident
12 Dr.Mohammed Sameer

D.Ortho, MBBS

Senior Resident

13 Dr.Biju P.A.

MS, MBBS

Senior Resident

Departmental Infrastructure
OPD:
Clinical Examination room -9
OP procedure room -1
Plaster Room -1

Specialty
• Arthroplasty clinic
• Arthroscopy and sports medicine
• Backache and spinal injury clinic
• Rheumatoid clinic
• CP and polio Clinic

Wards:
• 80 beds- 2 Units
• Multi disciplinary ICU
• Upgraded accident and emergency center with
• Exclusive two major and minor OT facility in the
• OT facility in the trauma center

Department library – 167 books and 6 periodicals
• Two Seminar room with seating capacity of 25 and 50
• 3 clinical teaching rooms for demonstration in the wards

Class rooms with ICT facility
• LCD projector
• Overhead projectors
• Live transmission facility of surgery from OT to seminar hall.

Museum with mounted gross specimens
• Posters and charts
• Replica orthoses and prostheses for demo
• Mounted Saw bones with various fixation techniques

Equipments available in the Department include
• State of the art- 2 OT theatres with laminar flow AC for conducting Joint Replacement Surgery, Arthroscopy Surgery and regenerative orthopedics procedures , spinal surgery, surgery for trauma and fractures management and tumor surgery.

MAJOR EQUIPMENTS LIST

Instruments Name Make and Year of Purchase
1 Image Intensifier (GE)C-Arm with IITV Siemens 2013
2 Image Intensifier (GE)C-Arm with IITV Allengers 2009
3 Arthrocope – storz,stryker system PIKA medical system 2003
4 Interlocking nail for femur/tibia/humerus Adler/ 2001 T Yogeshwar
5 DHS for hip Surgery Sushruth/2000
6 Hemiarthroplasty INOR/2004
7 Fracture Fixation sets3.5mm/4.5mm INOR
8 General set for soft tissue surgery Sushruth Ahana Surgicals
9 External Fixation set for major bone Adler/2000
10 Mini external fixation set Adler/2000
11 Ilizarov Fixation Adler/2000
12 Pneumatic Drill & Screw & Saw blade A.O
13 Electric Drill 2 Nos Manman
Battery operated drills 2 nos Bell surgical
14 Total Hip Replacement Set Depuy Johnson
15 Total Knee replacement Set Depuy Johnson
16 JESS fixator
17 Flexible Reamer System 2 Nos Manman, Pitkar, AOsynthes
18 Pedicle Screw Instrumentation Pitkar
18 ACL Reconstruction System
20 CPM Meditech
21 Arthroscopy Shaver Stryker  Ortho 2007
21 Ilizarov fixation   -No 4
22 Arthroscopic light source with three chip camera Stryker 2010
23 Orthopaedic Fracture table PSI
24 Canulated Cancellous Screw system 6.5 Sushruth
25 Canulated Cancellous Screw system 4 Sushruth
26 Tourniquet Set Pneumatic 2004
27 Tourniquet Set Pneumatic 2007

Services:

a.Schemes applicable.

Sampoorna suraksha, Vajapayee,Yashaswini, ESI

b. Courses offered: MBBS, MS ortopaedics,Doctoral of Philosophy, MPT,BPT,lab technology,image technology.

c. Extension activities
• Department consultants visit medical center, Nitte twice a month as a part of rural outreach programme and conduct required screening as well as therapeutic treatment.
• Department consultants visit medical center, B.C Road twice a month as a part of rural outreach programme and conduct required screening as well as therapeutic treatment.
• Department consultants also participate in the various medical camps conducted by the colleges on various Sundays at various rural places.
• Department also conducted free bone mineral densitometry test to needy patients on various occasions

C.M.E, Workshop, conferences –for the year 2013
• Post-Graduate Teaching Programme was conducted under the aegis of Department of Orthopaedics , K S Hedge Medical Academy in association with Canara Orthopaedic Society Case presentation s, X rays discussions and demonstrations were conducted by Prof. (Dr.) M Shantharam Shetty, Pro Chancellor, Nitte university, Prof H R Rai, head of the department KSHEMA, Prof. B Jayaprakash Shetty, president of COS, and heads of departments and faculty of neighboring medical colleges.55 PG students participated in the event at 10th March 2013 at Vimshathi Bhavan, ABSMIDS, Deralakatte.

• P.G Teaching programme conducted on 10th of November 2013. The P.G’s of orthopaedic department of different Medical colleges in and around Mangalore and DNB centers Nursing Homes of Mangalore are participated in this Teaching programme.

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