Surgery
Feline Advanced Soft Tissue Surgery I
registration open
Vienna / Austria
20.03.2024
9.04.2024 – 12.04.2024
EURO 3.090.-*
EURO 2.990.-*(early registration deadline: 31.10.2023)
* eLibrary access is included in the course fee
Total hours: 40
ATF hours (Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland): TBA
ECTS credits (Master & Certificate): 5
Program Director:
Principal Course Master:
Univ. Prof. Dr. Guillaume Chanoit, DECVS, DACVS (FR)
Course Masters:
Dr. Simona Vincenti, DECVS (CH)
Dr. Daniela Murgia, DECVS (UK)
Course Overview
This course focuses on the most common specific surgical diseases and treatments of cats. It is recommended but not mandatory that participants have taken the soft tissue surgery I before.
Learning Outcomes: At the end of the course, participants 1) shall have acquired a sound knowledge about specific aspects of feline soft tissue surgery 2) Master technically the most common feline-specific soft tissue surgeries
Course program (subject to change)
Wednesday, 20/03/2024 – Online Course Introduction/Explanation
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome & Introduction
Recorded Webinars:
• Abdominal wall anatomy, approaches, closure, and drainage
• Abdominal biopsies
• Perioperative care: post-operative pain control
• Perioperative care: Nutritional needs and support
• FLUTD: current medical knowledge
• Tumours of the urinary tract
• Endoscopy of the urinary tract
• Renal Transplantation: Where are we at?
Tuesday, 9 April 2024 - Lectures (Urinary tract surgery and advanced intestinal surgery I)
08:15 – 09:00 Local welcome
09:00 – 10:45 Urinary tract trauma (kidney, ureter, bladder)
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 Debriefing from webinars
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:15 Urethral diseases of the cat: obstruction, trauma, calculi, stenosis
14:15 – 15:00 Techniques for ureteral calculi: stent vs. SUB vs. surgery
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Urinary incontinence
16:30 – 17:30 Advanced intestinal surgery (clinical cases): Intussusception / Linear foreign body
17:30 – 18:00 Debriefing urinary tract
18:00 – 19:30 Ice-breaker
Wednesday, 10 April 2024 - Practical excercises
08:30 – 09:00 Introduction
09:00 – 10:30 Ex lap and closure
Neprhostomy tubes
Partial and total nephrectomy
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Cystostomy tubes
Cystostomy, partial cystectomy
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Ureteral stenting, SUB, ureteral surgery (introduction to surgery under magnification)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 Urethrostomies (perineal, prepubic), colposuspension, urethropexy
17:00 – 18:00 Debriefing
Thursday, 11 April 2024 - Lectures (liver and biliary tree- and advanced intestinal surgery II) and wrap-up session
08:30 – 09:30 Surgical diseases of the biliary tree: bile flow diversion, stenting
09:30 – 10:30 Portosystemic shunts in the cat
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Surgical diseases of the pancreas
12:00 – 12:30 Surgical diseases of the adrenal gland
12:30 – 13:00 Advanced intestinal surgery (clinical case): Atresia ani and fistulae
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 Liver lobectomy
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16.30 Advanced intestinal surgery (clinical case): Megacolon
17:00 – 17:30 Debriefing Liver, pancreas
19:00 Social Dinner
Friday, 12 April 2024 - Practical exercises
08:30 – 09:00 Introduction
09:00 – 10:30 Abdominal exploration / Advanced dissections (pancreas, adrenals…)
Abdominal biopsies
Partial or complete liver lobectomy
Shunt explore
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Duodenal papilla catheterization – CBD stenting
Cholecystoenterostomies
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Partial pancreatectomy
Omental flap in pancreatic surgery
Subtotal colectomy
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:30 Wrap up practical exercises – Quiz
17:30 – 18:00 Farewell
Course location
thv – International Training Center for Human & Veterinary Medicine Bergmillergasse 5, Stiege 2, Top 3, 1140 Vienna, Austria