SAGES Hands-On Course I

Laparoscopic Colon Surgery Animate Course

Wednesday, March 12, 2003

Time of Lectures:7:45 AM - 12:00 PM, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Time of Lab: 1:00 - 5:00 PM

Duration of Course: Full Day

Course Chair: R. Lawrence Whelan, MD

Course Co-Chair: Morris Franklin, MD

Lab Coordinator: Tonia Young-Fadok, MD

Who Should Attend:

The course will be appropriate for surgical residents and attending surgeons.

Course Description:

The course will provide attendees with information regarding surgical technique and helpful tips that will allow them to deal with the
following portions of a laparoscopic colectomy or problems that may arise: 1) colonic mobilization, 2) devascularization, 3) finding the ureter, 4) splenic flexure mobilization and 5) specimen delivery and anastomosis. Attendees will also be brought up to date on the latest clinical results regarding the following indications for laparoscopic colectomy: 1) diverticulitis, 2) inflammatory bowel disease, 3) colon cancer, and 4) rectal cancer. A brief summary of the immunologic and oncologic ramifications of minimally invasive methods will be given as well. The course will be appropriate for surgical residents and attending surgeons both with and without appreciable experience with laparoscopic-assisted colectomy. Attendees may choose to register for the morning lectures and the afternoon animate laboratory, or they may attend the morning and afternoon lectures.

Registration for the lab is limited to 90 participants.

Objectives:

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

• discuss the latest clinical results regarding different indications for laparoscopic colectomy;
• discuss several surgical approaches to the various components of the laparoscopic-assisted colectomy.

Lab Description:

Participants will perform a colectomy and be exposed to liver ultrasound, hand-assisted surgery, tissue division and anastomosis.

SAGES gratefully acknowledges generous educational grants in support of this course from
Karl Storz Endoscopy-America, Inc. • Stryker Endoscopy • Autosuture

SAGES Hands-On Course II

Flexible Endoscopy Hands On Course

Wednesday, March 12, 2003

Time: 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Time of Lab: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Duration of Course: Full Day

Course Chair: Jeffrey Marks, MD

Course Co-Chair: William Richards, MD

Lab Coordinator: Jeff Hazey, MD

Course Description:

This course will include a comprehensive description of available and emerging therapeutic endoscopic techniques. The didactic session will include lectures by surgical endoscopic experts on GI bleeding, management of neoplasia, enteral access techniques, and novel endoscopic approaches to GERD. In addition, the faculty will be put on the “hot seat” during a panel session on difficult clinical situations entitled “What would you do if…” Following the morning didactic session, an animate hands-on laboratory session will allow participants to practice therapeutic endoscopic techniques including: variceal/hemorrhoidal band ligation, polypectomy, balloon dilation, enteral stenting, PEG, ulcer management, endoscopic tattooing/
submucosal injection, GERD management (Stretta, endoscopic suturing), and endoscopic simulator.

Objectives:

At the completion of this course, participants will be able to integrate numerous therapeutic techniques into their endoscopic management of gastrointestinal diseases including colonoscopic polypectomy, hemorrhoidal banding, stricture dilation, enteral stent placement, endoscopicsclerotherapy, foreign body removal, enteral access, and Stretta (radiofrequency treatment for GERD). In addition, participants will be able to describe the indications, contraindications, and complications of these techniques.”

Lab Description:

This animate lab will utilize a porcine model approached transorally only. Tracheostomy and general anesthetics are required. Esophageal over-tubes will be placed in all animals to ease endoscopic procedures.
The following therapeutic maneuvers will be performed:

• Polypectomy
• Ulcer management - thermal and nonthermal techniques
• Entral balloon dilation
• Endoscopic stenting
• Entral access techniques (optional)
• Endoscopic simulator

Registration for the lab is limited to 27 participants.

SAGES gratefully acknowledges generous educational grants in support of this course from
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. • Olympus America

SAGES Hands-On Course III

Laparoscopic CBD Inanimate Hands-On Course

Thursday, March 13, 2003

Time: 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Time of Lab: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Duration of Course: Full Day

Course Chair: David Rattner, MD, Course Co-Chair: Juan Pekolj, MD

Lab Coordinator: Carlos Gracia, MD

Course Description:

The Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Course will include didactic lectures and videos providing the rationale and methodology for performing laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration. Surgeons performing laparoscopic biliary surgery who wish to learn how to manage common duct pathology laparoscopically should consider attending this course.

Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, the participant will have been presented with the following information, and should have an understanding of the issues regarding laparoscopic common bile duct exploration.

• Options for making the preoperative diagnosis of common bile duct pathology, including laboratory tests and imaging studies.
• Options for imaging the bile ducts intraoperatively, including cholangiography and ultrasonography.
• Techniques for intraoperative cholangiography
• Indications for laparoscopic common bile duct exploration
• Contraindications to laparoscopic common bile duct exploration
• Access routes for common bile duct exploration, including transcystic, transductal and transpapillary approaches.
• Techniques of laparoscopic common bile duct exploration, including balloon, basketing, lithotripsy, and endoscopic methods.
• Results of laparoscopic common bile duct exploration
• The role of ERCP.
• An overall algorithm for the management of common bile duct pathology.

Lab Description:

The lectures will be followed by an afternoon inanimate laboratory with intensive hands-on training. Expert faculty will instruct participants in a 1:3 faculty:trainee ratio. Participants will gain experience in access routes for common bile duct exploration, including transcystic and transductal approaches, as well as techniques of laparoscopic common bile duct exploration, including balloon, basketing, and endoscopic methods.
Registration for the lab is limited to 30 participants.

SAGES gratefully acknowledges generous educational grants in support of this course from: Cook Surgical • Taut, Inc. • Karl Storz Endoscopy-America, Inc. (contribution in-kind)

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