Soft Tissue Surgery I

Name: Soft Tissue Surgery I
Start: 2026-03-02T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-04-18T23:59:59+02:00
Location: Bucharest / Romania

Registration opens soon

Program Director:

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

Principal Course Master(s):

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

Instructor(s):

Dr. Ruta Noreikaite (LT)

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, 2/03/2026 8:30 CEST – Online Course Introduction/Explanation

7 hours of Recorded Webinars on Surgical Methods

• Surgical site infections Allerton / Dupré
• Instrument and tissue handling techniques Findji
• Patient, surgeon, OP room preparation Findji
• Disinfection / Sterilisation methods Merca
• Hemostasis, hemostatic devices Findji
• Suture material and suture techniques Findji
• Pain management in abdominal surgery Rocchi/Eberspächer
• Nutritional support Handl

Wednesday, 15/04/2026 – Lectures and Dry Lab

08:30 – 09:00 Local welcome Dupré
09:00 – 10:15 Abdominal wall anatomy, approaches, closure Noreikaite/Dupré
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Abdominal biopsies Aertsens
11:30 – 12:30 Gastrointestinal surgery: anatomy, surgery (part 1) Dupré
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 Gastrointestinal surgery: surgery (part 2) Dupré
15:00 – 16:00 Gastric Dilatation Volvulus Aertsens
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Dry labs on suture and ligature techniques Dupré / Aertsens / Noreikaite
18:00 – 19:00 Ice breaker

Thursday, 16/04/2026 – Practical exercises on dogs (Dupré, Aertsens, Katic, Noreikaite)

08:30 – 09:00 Various techniques of splenectomy (lecture) Katic
09:00-10:30 09:00 – 10:30 Laparotomy / Abdominal exploration
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 11:00 – 12:30 Abdominal biopsies, splenectomy
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:30 Enterotomies, gastropexies
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Resection anastomosis

Friday, 17/04/2026 - Lectures and wrap-up session

08:30-09:00 The Omentum: The surgeon’s best friend Dupré
09:00-10:15 Diseases and Surgery of large intestines (excl. Rectum) Chanoit
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:15 Nutritional support and feeding tubes placement Dupré
11:15 – 12:30 Debriefing webinars
13:30 – 15:00 The septic peritonitis Chanoit
15:00 – 15:30 Introduction to minimally-invasive surgery Dupré
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00 Wrap-up
19:00-… Social Dinner

Saturday, 18/04/2026 – Practical exercises on cats (Chanoit, Dupré, Gradner, Noreikaite)

08:30 – 09:00 Introduction
09:00-10:30 09:00 – 10:30 Feeding tubes placement
Abdominal exploration
Advanced dissections (pancreas, adrenals, aorta…) /
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
11:00 – 12:30 Small and Large intestines (1)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 13:30 – 15:00 Small and Large intestines (2)
Serosal patch
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 Jejunal graft and more…
17:00 – … Debriefing and farewell