Department
Name of department: Clinic of trauma surgery
Head of department: Karel Edelmann
Surgeon in charge of fellows: Lubomir Kopp
Scrub in
Is there an opportunity for the AO Fellows to scrub in? Yes
Is there any additional / special license required to scrub in? no
More information
Number of beds in department: 53
Total Orthopedic trauma cases per year: > 1000
Total Polytrauma cases with injury severity score greater than 15 per year: 101–150
Other activities: full range of surgical specialties incl. paediatric traumacenter, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, cardiosurgery, maxilofacial surgery etc.
Language
Dominant language spoken in the operating room: Czech
English written and spoken by our team members: written (4)* / spoken (4)*
* Level of proficiency, with 1 equaling basic and 5 equaling proficient.