Soft Tissue Surgery I

Name: Soft Tissue Surgery I
Start: 2025-07-21T00:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-08-25T23:59:59+02:00
Location: Warsaw, Poland

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Program Director:

Univ. Prof. Dr. Gilles Dupré Dipl. ECVS (FR/AT)

Principal Course Master(s):

Univ. Prof. Dr. Gilles Dupré Dipl. ECVS (FR/AT)

Course Overview

This course focuses on the basic principles of surgery, tissue handling, knotting techniques and general abdominal and gastro-intestinal surgery.

Learning Outcomes: At the end of the course, participants 1) shall be able to apply atraumatic surgery principles on all occasions, 2) master current abdominal surgeries principles and techniques, 3) have changed paradigm, not trying anymore to know “how” but “why”.

Course Program (Subject to change)

Monday, 21/07/2025 – Online Course introduction/Explanation

08:30 – 09:00 Welcome, Introduction Dupré

7 hours of Recorded Webinars on Surgical methods from STS I Panel course masters
Webinar: Surgical Site Infections: Fergus Allerton/Gilles Dupré
Webinar: Instrument and Tissue Handling Techniques
Webinar: Patient, Surgeon, OP Room Preparation
Webinar: Desinfection/Sterilisation Methods
Webinar: Hemostasis, Hemostatic Devices
Webinar: Suture Material and Suture Techniques
Webinar: Abdominal Wall Anatomy, Approaches, Closure and biopsies

Friday, 22/08/2025 – Lectures and Dry Lab

08:15 – 09:00 Local welcome
09:00-10:45 Basic Knowledge in Gastro-Intestinal Surgery: Anatomy, Surgery
Particularities of Large Intestines and large intestines surgical diseases
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 Debriefing from Webinars with casus cases
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30 Use of Omentum and Abdominal Hernias
14:30 – 15:00 The Fast Splenectomy
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:30 Dry labs on suture and ligature techniques
17:00-… Debriefing
17:30 – 19:00 Ice-breaker

Saturday, 23/08/2025 – Practical excercises

08:30 – 09:00 introduction
09:00 – 10:30 Laparotomy
Abdominal exploration
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Use of omentum, lengthening techniques,
Abdominal biopsies
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Entero and enterectomies
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 Fast splenectomy and more
17:00-… Debriefing

Sunday, 24/08/2025 - Lectures and wrap-up session

08:30 – 09:30 Nutritional needs of the Surgical Patient
09:30 – 10:30 Gastric Dilatation Volvulus
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 The Septic Peritonitis
12:30 – 13:00 Introduction to Minimally-Invasive Surgery
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:00 Pain management in abdominal surgery Rocchi
16:00 – 18:00 Debriefing, wrap-up session
19:00 Social Dinner

Monday, 25/08/2025 – Practical exercises

08:30 – 09:00 introduction
09:00 – 10:30 Feeding Tubes Placement
Laparotomy
Abdominal exploration/ Advanced dissections (pancreas, adrenals…)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Serosal patch,
Enteroplication
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Fast Splenectomy,
Gastropexy
Colectomy
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 More…
17:00 – … Debriefing and farewell