Surgery
Soft Tissue Surgery Basic Laparoscopy
held
Cluj-Napoca/Romania
24 April 2024 (online)
15- 18 May 2024 (practical sessions), Cluj-Napoca/RO
EURO 4.100.-*
EURO 4.000.-*(early registration deadline: 6.11.2023)
* 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:
Course Masters:
Dr. Hervé Brissot DECVS (FR)
Dr. Federico Massari DECVS (IT)
Dr. Bart van Goethem DECVS (BE)
Instructor:
Dr. Ruta Noreikaite (LT)
Course Overview
The ESAVS Soft Tissue Surgery – combined Laparoscopy course is dedicated to practitioners wishing to start with laparoscopic surgery. A strong focus will be made on practical exercises with dry labs on models and ex-vivo organs and wet labs on dogs’ cadavers and anesthetized pigs. A large part of the theoretical lectures will be displayed as Webinars allowing participants to work at their own pace. All procedures on anesthetized animal will respect the most advanced animal welfare guidelines.
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course, participants 1) Shall have a profound knowledge on the pros and cons of mini-invasive surgery and the most common indications 2) Shall be able to plan and organize a mini-invasive setting in their clinic and to start with the most common indications.
Participants that registered must be aware that the format is 1+4 and that no surgery will be done on live dogs.
Course program (Subject to change)
DATE CHANGE: Wednesday, 24/04/2024 - Online Welcome - Course introduction / Explanation
08:30 – 09:00 Welcome & Introduction
Recorded Webinars:
• The endoscopic tower and scopes
• Basic and advanced endoscopic instrumentation (staplers, tissue fusion technology)
• Strategic organization in laparoscopy: room, patient, monitors
• How to place ports in laparoscopic surgery: the triangulation principles
• The psychomotor skills and training in mini-invasive surgery
• Capnoperitoneum and working space
Wednesday, 15/05/2024
08:30 – 10:00 Welcome, course presentation, and learning outcomes
History and recent developments
How to enter the abdomen
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 13:00 Basic knotting techniques
Debriefing webinars
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 17:30 Dry Lab: Training in basic mini-invasive surgery skills:
– Tower construction
– Training with Instrumentation including trocars
– Basic hand-skills, hand-eye coordination
– Basic mistels training tasks 1-2
– Extra-corporeal knot tying
Evening Get Together Drink
Thursday, 16/05/2024
08.30 – 10.30 Laparoscopic exploration and biopsies
Laparoscopic spay and ovariohysterectomy
Laparoscopic cryptorchiectomy
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 13:00 Single port platforms
Lap-assisted procedures:
– Lap-assisted gastropexy
– Lap-assisted cystotomy
– Other lap-assisted procedures
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 17:00 Ex Vivo Lab: Liver and other models:
– Liver biopsies
– Use of ligasure, bipolar and more on cholecystectomies
– Advanced dissection on ex vivo pieces
Evening Free evening
Friday, 17/05/2024
08:30 – 09:30 Anaesthesia for laparoscopic procedures
09:30 – 10:30 Clinical cases (1)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Clinical cases (2)
12:00 – 13:00 Minimally-invasive surgery complications
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 17:00 Post-Mortem Lab / Dogs:
– Laparoscopic exploration, biopsies, Ove/Ovh
– Lap-assisted gastropexy
– Cholecystectomy
Evening Social Dinner
Saturday, 18/05/2024
09:30 – 15:00 In Vivo Lab / Pigs (1):
– Capnoperitoneum
– Port placement
– Exploration
– Biopsies
Local Lunch Break and Course Evaluation
In Vivo Lab / Pigs (2):
– Cholecystectomy
– More, depending on participants´ advancement (adrenalectomy, nephrectomy)
Course ends at 3 pm