Pediatric Fellows Only Lab Course

Thursday, March 13, 2003, 1:00 - 5:00 PM

Course Chair: G. Whit Holcomb, MD, Course Co-Chair: Marc Levitt, MD

Course Description:

Thirty pediatric fellows will be invited to participate in this advanced animate hands-on laboratory. Letters of invitation have been mailed to Program Directors and Chiefs of Surgery, inviting them to select a fellow to attend this course. For more information about registration, please contact the Registrar. Basic laparoscopy and thoracoscopy skills are a prerequisite. The lab will involve teaching and practicing of advanced skills as components of advanced pediatric MIS cases. The operations that will be performed include a bowel anastomosis, an esophageal anastomosis, a pulmonary resection, and pyloroplasty. Key skills that are required to perform these operations will be taught and practiced. These include suturing, knot-tying, controlling vascular pedicles, anastomosing segments of intestine, mobilizing the colon, and resecting pulmonary segments. Principles of case set-up, patient and team positioning, and instrumentation will be stressed. There will be three trainees and one instructor at each animate station, and each station will be equipped with a telescope, monitor, tower, insufflator, appropriate pediatric MIS instruments, and energy sources.

Objectives:

• To learn the key elements of performing advanced pediatric MIS, such as key skill sets, case set-up, principles of patient and team positioning, and appropriate instrumentation;
• To acquire suturing and knot-tying skills;
• To learn to control a vascular pedicle, such as ligation of the renal vessels and ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus;
• To learn the technique of intestinal anastomosis;
• To learn how to mobilize the colon, and to perform a colonic pull-through;
• To learn the technique of thoracoscopic pulmonary biopsies, wedge resections, and lobectomies;
• To learn the technque of esophageal anastomosis, simulating repair of esophageal atresia.

Laboratory Faculty

Craig Albanese, MD

Klaas Bax, MD

Peter Borzi, MD

Keith Georgeson, MD

Thomas Inge, MD

Thom Lobe, MD

Philippe Montupet, MD

Steven Rothenberg, MD

Mark Wulkan, MD

CK Yeung, MD

IPEG gratefully acknowledges a generous educational grant in support of this course from Karl Storz Endoscopy-America, Inc.

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