Why Locking Plates Make Your Surgical Life Easier?

Why Locking Plates Make Your Surgical Life Easier?

Does your hospital or health care center make use of locking plates during surgery? If not, one of the reasons perhaps can be you are not aware of the application or concept of plates. I guess this blog will provide you with something that will help your surgeons and medical staff to perform Orthopedic or any other surgery with ease.

The locking plate is also termed a compression plate. It is now becoming one of the crucial parts of today’s Traumatology and Orthopedic surgeries. If you get to hold on to the principles and concepts you will understand the advantages that it can give to your medical facility.

The concept of locking plates is often misjudged and misunderstood as it looks like an external fixator but actually, it is more of an internal fixator. The primary aim of a locking plate is that it helps in improving the poor quality of bone by increasing the functional performance of bone, screw, and plate connection. It is highly beneficial in forefoot surgery or all type of ankle and foot surgery. It relies on fixed, rigid, and right-angle stability by locking the screw into the plate.

There is one point you should keep an eye on is that cases of instability can arise using a locking plate when the patient load is greater than the compressive strength of the bone. We at GWS Surgicals provide you with every single locking plate in the market and how to make its efficient use. Being a top locking plate it’s our prime duty to provide our future partners with the best and most efficient plates.

There are different plates you can choose from which can be used in different parts for different surgeries like Clavicle Superior Anterior Distal Locking Plate Left & Right, Small Locking Plate, Locking Distal Femur Plate, Calcaneal Locking Plate, Clavicle S-Shape Plate, Medial Distal Tibia Locking Plate without Tab, Left & Right, Proximal Humerus ‘Philos’ Locking, Distal Humerus Locking Left & Right, Locking Clavicle Hook Plate Left & Right, etc. You can choose from the above list of plates according to your requirements.

Conclusion
You must have got the idea of how locking plates can improve the surgical experience for your patients at your hospitals or healthcare centers.