It works to train doctors in the area of reconstructive microsurgery, in addition to conducting research in reconstructive surgery of peripheral nerves and the spinal cord, with a significant contribution to the scientific advancement of the area. It has constant monitoring and an extensive training program (4 months) and an intensive one-week program, according to the availability of the interested party. The Reconstructive Microsurgery and Hand Surgery Emergency Care Center assists patients who are victims of trauma resulting in type III-B and III-C Gustilo and Anderson exposed fractures, traumatic limb amputations, peripheral nerve injuries and complex traumas of the hand, amputated limb replantations, emergency microsurgical flaps, emergency peripheral nerve reconstruction, treatment of complex hand injuries (osteosyntheses, repairs of tendon injuries, reconstructive surgeries). In 2018, it received funding from the Itaú Social Foundation to readapt the microsurgery room belonging to the Microsurgery Laboratory of the IOT/HC/FMUSP (see specific fundraising item).
The structure enables the simultaneous training of several graduate students, as well as the execution of complex microsurgery research projects. The laboratory is equipped with 5 DF Vasconcelos MC-A184 surgical microscopes, 3 workbenches, 2 Emai BO-50 microcoagulators, 2 ASSI surgical microinstrument toolboxes, 5 AESCULAP surgical microinstrument toolboxes, Stermax autoclave, Odontobrás EL material drying oven, television and image recording systems.
In 2018, the laboratory received R$200,000.00 from the Itaú Social Foundation to readapt the microsurgery room belonging to the Microsurgery Laboratory of the IOT/HC/FMUSP.
The Rotary Microsurgery Laboratory of the Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology (IOT), founded in 1997, was reopened on October 11, 2019. It is larger and equipped with twelve state-of-the-art microscopes for training that ranges from suturing in gloves to the technique of microanastomoses in small-caliber blood vessels. The laboratory is resuming its activities after a 4-month renovation. The structural redesign to better accommodate and teach courses was made possible through a partnership with the IOT, the Rotary Club and Banco Itaú. “The excellence of the Microsurgery Laboratory is proof of the importance of partnerships with the private sector, combining university expertise with private sector resources.”