THE RUSSIAN COUNCIL OF ExPERTS FOR IMPROVEMENT THE APPROACHES TO THE TREATMENT OF OSTEOPOROSIS

Abstract

The meeting of the Russian Council of Experts for improvement the approaches to the treatment of osteoporosis (OP) was held in Moscow on December 4, 2014. Leading Russian and Switzerland specialists in orthopedics, traumatology and rheumatology attended the meeting as well as members of Russian unit of clinical department AOTrauma of the international public (non-government) organization AOFoundation and members of the Russian Osteoporosis Association. The participants of the Russian Council of Experts have discussed the system of care for patients with OP in the Russian Federation. They discussed the need for the development of measures to optimize interdisciplinary interaction between orthopedic surgeons and internal medicine specialists in the treatment of patients with OP to reduce the number of postsurgical complications and prevention of further vertebral and nonvertebral fractures. Experts have noted the need to raise the level of knowledge about OP in orthopedic surgeons, clinical characteristics of fractures in patients with OP and measures to control it; to raise awareness of OP among patients by billboards in clinics and outpatient emergency rooms; to develop and implement into clinical practice of orthopedic surgeons standard of care for elderly patients with fragility fractures; to develop algorithm of secondary fractures prevention through the prescription of pathogenic OP therapy at the level of the trauma unit; to form an interdisciplinary system of the medical care for patient with fragility fractures, as well as contribute to the organization of the service Secondary Fractures Prevention (Fracture Liaison Service) in the Russian health care system.

Keywords

• экспертный совет
• остеопороз
• низкоэнергетические переломы
• система вторичной профилактики переломов
• лечение
• терипаратид