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ORTHOPEDICS
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The Department of Orthopaedics is supported by a robust, contemporary, and functionally integrated infrastructure designed to deliver advanced musculoskeletal care, high-quality surgical services, and comprehensive academic training. The department operates through a coordinated clinical ecosystem involving emergency care, inpatient and outpatient services, operating theatres, imaging, rehabilitation, laboratory support, and academic facilities. With its broad service capability and multidisciplinary framework, the department is positioned to provide tertiary-level orthopaedic evaluation, treatment, training, and research support.
A. Advanced Outpatient Infrastructure
The outpatient wing of the department serves as a high-functioning clinical interface for the evaluation and management of the full spectrum of musculoskeletal disorders. It is structured to support efficient patient flow, clinical examination, treatment planning, long-term follow-up, and specialty consultation.
Key facilities include:
- Dedicated orthopaedic consultation rooms for faculty and resident services
- Well-organized patient examination areas with appropriate clinical examination infrastructure
- Outpatient review and follow-up facilities for trauma, post-operative, degenerative, inflammatory, paediatric, and chronic orthopaedic cases
- Integrated consultation support for radiological review, operative counselling, rehabilitation planning, and longitudinal patient monitoring
- Designated space for patient education, counselling, and discussion of treatment options including conservative, surgical, and rehabilitative pathways
The outpatient services enable comprehensive first-contact orthopaedic assessment as well as sustained subspecialty-oriented follow-up
B. Inpatient and Perioperative Care Infrastructure
The department is supported by well-developed inpatient facilities for trauma admissions, elective orthopaedic cases, post-operative monitoring, infection management, and staged rehabilitation. The ward environment is configured to facilitate continuous patient observation, multidisciplinary care, and perioperative optimization.
Available inpatient infrastructure includes:
- Dedicated orthopaedic beds for acute, elective, and post-operative admissions
- Structured nursing support and bedside monitoring
- Facilities for preoperative preparation and post-operative surveillance
- Dressing review and wound care support
- Patient transport systems for seamless interdepartmental movement
- Traction support and bedside procedural assistance where indicated
- Discharge counselling and stepwise rehabilitation planning
These services support the continuum of care from admission to functional recovery.
C. State-of-the-Art Fracture, Plaster, and Procedure Facilities
The department has access to an efficient and clinically essential fracture and plaster care set-up for immediate stabilization, immobilization, wound assessment, and follow-up procedures. This area forms an integral part of both trauma management and post-procedural orthopaedic care.
Available facilities and materials include:
- Plaster of Paris and immobilization materials for upper and lower limb applications
- Comprehensive splintage systems and support devices
- Cast application, reinforcement, wedging, and removal instruments
- Sterile dressing sets and minor orthopaedic procedure trays
- Wound care consumables, antiseptic solutions, and bedside procedural support instruments
- Materials for emergency and definitive temporary fracture immobilization
This facility supports rapid, effective, and protocol-driven management of fractures, dislocations, soft tissue injuries, and follow-up immobilization needs
D. Comprehensive Emergency and Trauma Support
The department is fully integrated with emergency and casualty services, ensuring prompt orthopaedic response for acute trauma and limb-threatening musculoskeletal emergencies. The trauma care framework supports early stabilization, imaging, triage, admission, and operative planning.
Emergency support ecosystem includes:
- Immediate access to casualty and trauma assessment areas
- Rapid splintage and fracture stabilization support
- Emergency wound care and soft tissue injury management
- Stretcher, trolley, and assisted transport systems
- Expedited access to imaging and laboratory diagnostics
- Admission pathways for trauma, polytrauma, and urgent orthopaedic intervention
- Coordinated multidisciplinary management for complex injury patterns
This integrated trauma model enables timely and effective management of both isolated orthopaedic trauma and multisystem injury contexts
E. Modern Operative Infrastructure
The department is supported by major and minor operation theatre facilities equipped for trauma surgery, elective orthopaedic procedures, reconstructive interventions, and implant-related surgeries. The operative environment is backed by sterile workflow systems, anaesthesia support, essential orthopaedic instrumentation, and perioperative monitoring.
Operative infrastructure includes:
- Access to major operation theatres for elective and emergency orthopaedic surgeries
- Minor OT / procedure theatre facilities for selected interventions
- Standard OT table systems and anaesthesia workstation support
- Surgical illumination, suction, electrocautery, and tourniquet systems
- Sterile orthopaedic instrument inventories for trauma and elective procedures
- Fracture fixation instrumentation and procedure-specific surgical sets
- CSSD-backed sterilization and sterile consumable workflow
- Imaging support including C-arm / image intensifier access where indicated
- Implant and operative consumable support as per institutional availability
The theatre services are designed to support precision, sterility, operative efficiency, and safe perioperative care across a broad range of orthopaedic procedures
F. Advanced Diagnostic and Imaging Access
The department benefits from strong radiological support for diagnosis, fracture classification, operative planning, deformity assessment, post-operative review, and evaluation of complex musculoskeletal pathology.
Accessible imaging modalities include:
- Digital radiography / X-ray services
- Portable imaging support when required
- Computed tomography
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- Ultrasound support in selected musculoskeletal indications
This imaging backbone enhances diagnostic accuracy and enables evidence-based orthopaedic decision-making across trauma and elective practice.
G. High-Quality Laboratory and Perioperative Support
The department is backed by comprehensive laboratory, microbiological, and perioperative services that support surgical fitness evaluation, infection workup, trauma care, and post-operative monitoring.
Support systems include:
- Hematological and biochemical investigations
- Coagulation studies and blood grouping
- Inflammatory markers and infection profiling
- Microbiology and culture sensitivity testing for musculoskeletal infections
- Blood bank and transfusion support
- Pre-anaesthetic evaluation and perioperative fitness assessment
- Medical and specialty consultation for optimization of complex cases
- Cardiac and systemic workup where clinically indicated
This strong backend support contributes to safe surgery, effective infection control, and evidence-driven perioperative planning.
H. Integrated Rehabilitation and Functional Recovery Support
The department functions in close collaboration with physiotherapy and rehabilitation services to ensure restoration of mobility, joint function, strength, endurance, and overall musculoskeletal performance.
Rehabilitation infrastructure supports:
- Early post-trauma and post-operative mobilization
- Joint range-of-motion restoration
- Muscle strengthening and conditioning
- Gait training and ambulation protocols
- Functional recovery planning
- Weight-bearing progression schedules
- Long-term rehabilitation for chronic disability and complex orthopaedic recovery
This integrated model emphasizes not only structural healing, but also meaningful functional restoration and return to independence.
I. Dynamic Academic and Teaching Infrastructure
The department maintains a vibrant academic environment that supports undergraduate teaching, postgraduate residency training, Allied Health Sciences instruction, and doctoral-level academic engagement. Teaching is embedded into routine clinical service, offering strong bedside, operative, and discussion-based learning.
Academic infrastructure includes:
- Seminar and academic discussion spaces
- Lecture hall access with audiovisual and digital presentation systems
- Structured bedside teaching in wards, OPD, trauma, and OT settings
- Demonstration-based training in plaster techniques, reduction principles, wound care, and operative approaches
- Facilities for seminars, journal clubs, case presentations, clinical reviews, and dissertation discussions
The academic set-up fosters clinical reasoning, surgical judgement, scientific discussion, and continuous professional development.
J. Library and Scholarly Learning Resources
The department is strengthened by access to institutional library services and a scholarly environment conducive to academic growth, examination preparation, and research productivity.
Available learning resources include:
- Standard undergraduate and postgraduate orthopaedic textbooks
- Core references in trauma, fracture care, arthroplasty, spine, paediatric orthopaedics, and rehabilitation
- Print and digital journals
- E-learning and online academic resources
- Reference support for seminars, thesis work, publications, and doctoral research
These resources support evidence-based learning, academic writing, and sustained scholarly engagement.
K. Core Clinical Equipment and Functional Support Systems
The department is equipped with the essential clinical and procedural support systems necessary for high-volume orthopaedic service delivery.
Commonly available equipment and support systems include:
- Examination couches and patient assessment furniture
- Orthopaedic inpatient beds and bedside support systems
- Wheelchairs, stretchers, and transport trolleys
- POP materials, splints, immobilizers, collars, and slings
- Dressing sets, wound care instruments, and sterile procedural trays
- Orthopaedic surgical instrument sets
- Reduction and fixation support instruments
- Suction, cautery, and tourniquet systems
- Sterility maintenance and infection control support through CSSD
- Biomedical waste management and procedural housekeeping support
L. Research, Documentation, and Academic Output Support
The department also supports academic record keeping, research documentation, dissertation work, data collection, and scientific writing.
Support areas include:
- Maintenance of case records and follow-up documentation
- Faculty-guided dissertation supervision
- Clinical data access for research and audit purposes
- Institutional ethical process support
- Manuscript preparation and academic presentation mentorship
- Research culture for postgraduate, AHS, and doctoral candidates
M. Multidisciplinary Clinical Network
A major institutional strength of the department lies in its coordinated multidisciplinary framework. The Department of Orthopaedics works in close collaboration with:
- Emergency Medicine / Casualty
- Anaesthesiology
- Radiology
- General Medicine
- Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
- Microbiology
- Pathology
- Blood Bank
- General Surgery / Plastic Surgery where required
- Intensive Care and critical care services in selected cases
This interdisciplinary support enhances patient safety, broadens treatment capability, and strengthens the department’s role as a comprehensive orthopaedic care unit.
- WE HAVE BED STRENGTH OF 90 APART FROM POST OP WARD AND SURGICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT BEDS.
- WELL EQUIPPED OPERATION THEATRE WITH LAMINAR AIR FLOW AND IMAGE INTESIFIER FACILITY.
- ARTHROSCORY FOR MINIMAL INVASIVE PROCEDURES.
- INSTRUMENTS FOR HIP AND KNEE ARTHROPLASTY
- INSTRUMENTS FOR ALL SPINE SURGERIES
- INSTRUMENTS FOR INTRAMEDULLARY INTERLOCKING NAIL SYSTEM AND INTERNAL FIXATION SET FOR BOTH SMALL AND LARGE FRAGMENTS.
- WELL SUPPORTED BY FULLY EQUIPPED PHYSIOTHERAPY UNIT.
- DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARY WITH MORE THAN 150 BOOKS FOR READY REFERENCE. TWO JOURNALS EACH IN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL PUBLISHERS.
- DEPARTMENTAL MUSEUM.