The close of a very very very busy week for CAMTA!

Look at the beaming faces here!  Left to right you see Bill Wilkins of Smith and Nephew, Heather Perl, Anne Magee, Linda Lee Visscher, Marc Moreau and Ed Masson.  They are happy because the preparations for CAMTA's Mission 2010 are coming together.  Today the adult operating room team received the gift of free prostheses from Smith and Nephew.  They are a benevolent company!  They just sent 2 million dollars of plates, screws and all the other hi technology needed to do fractures to Haiti.  And they also gave us the prostheses we need to make a difference in over 40 Ecuadorean's lives!
How about a little fun before the packing begins!  Here are Cori, Patricia and Christina – adult OR nurses with stuffed animals for the CAMTA kids we will treat in Ecuador.

But it has to be serious too! Linda Lee, Heather and Anne check over the trays of surgical instruments that are necessary to implant the hips.  Below you can see what a tray contains.  There are reamers and trial balls plus other surgical devices.

Here's Elma Mehmedbegovic stuffing the closet with crutches.  We were tripping over the darned things — so much we could have ended up needing them for ourselves!  So Elma stuffed them in the closet out of harm's way.

Meanwhile the OR nurses weighed the hockey bags of supplies and instruments.  Each bag can hold “only” fifty pounds.  In the early years we loaded each bag with 70 pounds.

And finally a look at the prostheses close up.  These are femoral stems.  We take them in various sizes according to the x-rays that came up from Ecuador.  The x-rays were templated by Dr. Ed Masson and he selected the implants we require based on the results.

Chart Stuffing!Then it was over to the Moreau's kitchen to stuff the patient charts.  The more advance work we get out of the way, the easier it is to get rolling on the Sunday morning when we examine our patients.Here's Nicole Beaudoin and Sara Irving attaching the double hole attachment devices to the charts.  Or at least that's the best way I can describe these prongy gizmos.

Meanwhile Asha Olmstead stapled SF36 and WOMAC scoring sheets.  Don't know what those are?  Come to Ecuador and find out!

Here's Bev Runka, Gayle Hiebert and Asha Olmstead assembling the charts.  There is a cover page, a physician history and a nursing history plus a surgical consent in each chart.