Soft Tissue Surgery I

Name: Soft Tissue Surgery I
Start: 2025-11-17T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-11T23:59:59+01:00
Location: Vienna/Austria

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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 Master(s):

Dr. Nikola Katic, Dipl. ECVS (AT)
Dr. Adrien Aertsens, Dipl. ECVS (AT)
Univ. Prof. Dr. Guillaume Chanoit, Dipl. ECVS, Dipl. ACVS (FR)

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, 17/11/2025 – Online Course introduction/Explanation

08:30 – 09:00 Welcome & Introduction
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-Schweda
• Nutritional support Handl

Monday, 8/12/2025 – Lectures and Dry Lab

08:30 – 09:00 Local welcome Dupré
09:00 – 10:15 Abdominal wall anatomy, approaches, closure Dupré
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:30 Abdominal biopsies Chanoit
11:30 – 13:00 Gastrointestinal surgery: anatomy, surgery Dupré
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:15 Gastric dilatation volvulus Chanoit
15:15 – 16:00 The Omentum: the surgeon´s best friend Dupré
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Dry labs on suture and ligature techniques Chanoit / Dupré / Noreikaite
18:00 – 19:00 Ice breaker

Tuesday, 9/12/2025 – Practical excercises

08:30 – 09:00 Various techniques of splenectomy (lecture) Chanoit
09:00 – 10:30 Laparotomy / Abdominal exploration
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
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

Wednesday, 10/12/2025 - Lectures and wrap-up session

09:00 – 10:00 Diseases and surgery of large intestines (excl. rectum) Chanoit
10:00 – 10:45 Nutritional support and feeding tubes placement Dupré
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:30 Debriefing webinars
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 The septic peritonitis Chanoit
15:00 – 15:45 Introduction to minimally-invasive surgery Dupré
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 – 18:15 Wrap-up
19:00 Social Dinner

Thursday, 11/12/2025 – Practical exercises

08:30 – 09:00 Introduction
09:00 – 10:30 Feeding tubes placement / Abdominal exploration / Advanced dissections (pancreas, adrenals, aorta…)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Small and large intestines (1)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
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