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GENERAL INFORMATION

Venues & Dates: 2-days Basic & Advanced Laparoscopic Urology Course

COURSE CONTENT

1. Theoretical and Video presentations
2. European Basic Laparoscopic Urological Skills Program and Basic Laparoscopy Training on Laparoscopy Simulators (E-BLUS)
3. ESUT Advanced Laparoscopy Training Program (On Pig Model)

The Number of Participants:

Maximum: A total of 32 trainees grouped into 4 groups of 8 trainees each.

Depending on the type of exercise to be done each group will be further divided as follows:

1. Hands-on laparoscopic training on pigs: 2 trainees per pig
2. Training box practice: 2 trainees per training box
3. Laparoscopy simulators: 1 trainee per simulator

Theoretical Course Content and Video Presentations

1- Selection, Preparation and Anesthesia Management of Animals for Laparoscopic Urological Surgery Courses

2- Urological Laparoscopic Instrumentation

3- Preparation of the Laparoscopic Surgery Room

4- Laparoscopic Access and Port Placements

5- Training Boxes and Animal Models in Urological Laparoscopic Surgery

6- Laparoscopic Urological Interventions

7- Complications of Laparoscopic Surgery

Practical course content:

European Basic Laparoscopy Training on Laparoscopy Simulators (E-BLUS)

Level I: Training in laparoscopy training boxes (Pelvi-box trainer)

Task I:            Peg Transfer

Task II:           Cutting a Circle

Task III:         Needle Transfer and Guidance

Task IV:          Laparoscopic Knot Tying and Suturing

Level II: Laparoscopy simulators

Bimanual dexterity and knotting-suturing exercises

Level III: Animal laboratory

Task I:            Access: Inserting a verress needle, establishing of a pneumoperitoneum and trocar placement

Task II:          Preparing the testicular vein. Performing a varicocelectomy.

Task III:         Preparing the ureter. Performing an ureteroureterostomy (ureterolithotomy)

Task IV:         Performing a renal hilus dissection. (Renal artery, vein, vena cava, aorta)

Task V:          Performing a partial nephrectomy (hilus control, tumor resection and reconstruction)

Task VI:         Performing a nephrectomy: Kidney dissection, hilus control, clipping and cutting and placing the kidney in an organ bag.

Theoric:

Selection, Preparation and Anesthesia of Experimental Animals in Laparoscopic Urological Surgery Courses

Urological Laparoscopic Instrumentation    

Preparation of operating room for laparoscopy                               

Laparoscopic Access and Port Placements for urologic laparoscopic surgeries

TRAİNEES GROUPED İNTO 4 GROUPS OF 8 TRAİNEES EACH.

Group A and B Theoretical Training and Video Sessions

Training Models in Laparoscopic Training Boxes and E-BLUS

Laparoscopic Urological Surgeries in the Pig Model          

Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy 

Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy

Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy

Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty                 

1Laparoscopic Surgery Complications        

Physiological Complications of Laparoscopy

Group C and Group D Practical Training :Laparoscopic training on training boxes and Lap simulator and Laparoscopic Training on Pig Model

Group C : Laparoscopic training on training boxes and Lap simulator

Group D        Laparoscopic training on pigs