Surgery
Feline Soft Tissue Surgery: Thoracic Diseases and Skin Reconstruction
registration open
Vienna / Austria
05.03.2025
05.04.2025 – 08.04.2025
EURO 3.200.-*
EURO 3.100.-*(early registration deadline: 01.12.2024)
* 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 Nikola Katic DECVS (AU)
Dr Georg Heimel DECVS (AU)
Course Overview
Feline Soft Tissue Surgery: Thoracic Diseases and Skin Reconstruction – This Feline Soft Tissue Surgery course is one part of a newly designed three-part course on Feline Surgery (parts can be taken in any order). In a first part, it covers skin reconstructive surgery in cats and focuses on the differences between dogs and cats in terms of local and axial skin flaps, muscles flaps and reconstruction of challenging specific wounds ( eg. indolent wounds). The 2nd part of this course adresses the specific thoracic diseases seen in cats such as pyothorax, mediastinal masses , chylothorax ( different approach to dogs) and how to perform successful thoracic surgery in this challenging species.
Basic knowledge will be reviewed but focus will be put on advanced practices. This course comprises an equivalent of 8 hrs of recorded webinars and 4 days of face-to-face lectures and practicals.
Course program (subject to change)
5 March 2025 – Online Course Introduction/Explanation
7 hours of Recorded Webinars
Webinar: Skin healing in the cat: What is different? 45 min
Webinar: FISS: the oncologist point of view 60 min
Webinar: FISS: the surgeon point of view 60 min
Webinar: VAC : how to make it work in cats 45 min
Webinar: opening and closing the chest in in cats: what’s new? 60 min
Webinar: Anesthesia / analgesia of the thoracic cat 60min
Webinar: Imaging of the chest in cats 90 min
Saturday, 5 April 2025 - Lectures
09:00-9.45 Thoracic trauma
9.45-10.30 Chylothorax : are cats small dogs?
10:30– 11:00 Coffee Break
11:15-12.00 Pyothorax : medical and surgical treatment
12.00-12.45 Mediastinal mass
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30 MCQ and debriefing from thoracic webinars
14:30 – 15:00 Lung lobectomy
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 –16:30 Diaphragmatic and peritoneopericardial hernias
16:30- 17:30 Thoracic wall resection
17:30- 18:00 Discussion
18:00- 19:30 Icebreaker
Sunday 6 April 2025 - Practical excercises
09:00-10:30 Thoracotomy and sternotomy (opening and closure)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Lung lobectomy
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Diaphragmatic hernia repair
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:30 Thoracic wall resection and closure (latissimus dorsi / ext.oblique muscle flap)
Monday, 7 April 2025 - Lectures
09:00 – 10:00 Local flaps
10:00 – 10:30 Axial pattern flaps
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Distant direct and indirect flaps in cats
11:30 – 12:00 Challenging wounds in cats
12.00 – 13:00 MCQ and debriefing from the skin and reconstructive surgery webinars
13:00 –14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 Muscle and omental flaps
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 -16:30 Skin grafts
16:30 – 18:00 Clinical cases session
19:00 Social Dinner
Tuesday, 8 April 2025 - Practical exercises
09:00-10:30 Local flaps
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Axial flaps
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Muscle and omental flaps
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:30 Skin grafts
17:30-18:00 Farewell