Soft Tissue Surgery Basic Laparoscopy

Name: Soft Tissue Surgery Basic Laparoscopy
Start: 2025-02-17T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-08T23:59:59+01:00
Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Held

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. Manuel Jiménez Peláez, Dipl. ECVS (ES)
Dr. Bart van Goethem Dipl. ECVS (BE)

Instructor(s):

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)

Monday, 17/02/2025 - Online Welcome - Course introduction / Explanation

08:30 – 09:00 Welcome & Introduction

Recorded Webinars:
• Video-endoscopic surgery equipment and instruments (Dr. Bart van Goethem)
• Capnoperitoneum and working space (Dr. Federico Massari)
• Strategic Organization in laparoscopy (Dr. Federico Massari)
• The Psychomotor Skills and Training in Mini-Invasive Surgery (Dr. Nikola Katic)
• Advanced devices in laparoscopy (Dr. Hervé Brissot)

Wednesday, 05/03/2025

08:30 – 09:15 Welcome, course presentation, history
09:15 – 10:00 How to enter the abdomen safely
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:30 Optimal port placement
11:30 – 13:00 Basic knotting techniques
Debriefing webinars
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 17:30 Dry Lab: Training of 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, 06/03/2025

08.30 – 10.30 Laparoscopic exploration and biopsies
Laparoscopic cryptorchiectomy
Laparoscopic spay and OVR syndrome
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 13:00 Single port platforms and lap-assisted ovariohysterectomy
Lap-assisted gastropexy
Lap-assisted cystotomy
Lap-assisted digestive surgery
Lap-assisted cryptorchidectomy
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, 07/03/2025

08:30 – 09:15 Minimally-invasive surgery complications
09:15 – 10:30 Clinical cases
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 13:00 Post-mortem lab 1
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 17:00 Post-mortem lab 2
Evening – Social Dinner

Saturday, 08/03/2025

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