SUNDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2024
08:30 – 09:00 Introduction
09:00 – 09:30 Instrument and tissue handling techniques
09:30 – 10:00 Sterilisation methods
10:00 – 10:45 Patient, surgeon, OP room preparation
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:30 Hemostasis, hemostatic devices Suture material and suture techniques
12:30 – 13:00 Surgical Site Infections
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Abdomen 1
14:00 – 15:00 Abdominal wall anatomy, approaches and closure
15:00 – 15:30 Abdominal biopsies
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Basic knowledge in gastro-intestinal surgery: Anatomy, Surgery
17:00 -18:00 Questions and brainstorming
MONDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2024
Lecture and labs
Abdomen 1 and wet labs
08:30-09:30 Large intestines
09:30-12:30 Practicals session/Dry Lab
-Suture techniques on Boards and foams based on the Sim-vivo videos
-Surgeon and patients preparation
-Suture techniques
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 17:00 Practical session/Wet lab 1
-Abdominal approach
-Stomach/Intestines
-Abdominal closure
TUESDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2024
Abdomen 2
08:30 – 09:15 Abdominal hernias closure and use of omentum
09:15 – 10:15 How to treat septic peritonitis
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:15 The fast splenectomy
11:15 - 12:00 Nutritional needs of the surgical patient and feeding tubes
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:45 GDV
14:45 – 15:30 Introduction to oncologic surgery
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Group Work
WEDNESDAY, 13 NOVEMBER 2024
Abdomen 2 and wet labs
09:00-12:00
-Feeding tubes placement
-Biopsies
-Colon
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-17:00
-serosal patch
-enteroplication
-Fast splenectomy
-Gastropexy
THURSDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2024
Lectures and debriefing
Around the abdomen
09:00 – 09:45 Introduction to minimally-invasive surgery
09:45 – 10:30 Pre-, per- and postoperative pain control: Case-based
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Perioperative care of the acute abdomen (autotransfusion, …)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 – 17:00 Presentations by the different groups
Each group has 15` to prepare the 3 most important things to remember among 10 selected lectures. Delivery by one member of the group and discussion.