General info
Are you an experienced general surgeon with solid robotic expertise, eager to master advanced techniques in extended totally extraperitoneal (e-TEP) hernia repair?
This 2-day masterclass at Orsi Academy offers an exclusive chance to refine your skills through live surgical observation and intensive, hands-on training on human cadaver tissue.
What you will learn
- You will learn to comprehensively cover robot techniques in the extended totally extraperitoneal hernia repair.
- You will receive good insights on the surgical maneuvers to enhance the extraperitoneal space.
- You will learn a step by step guidance in the retro-muscular mesh positioning.
Faculty
Program
Full day of live case observations at AZ Maria Middelares Ghent
Live case observation at AZ Maria Middelares Ghent
Robot-assisted e-TEP on da Vinci Xi performed by Dr. Filip Muysoms
- Target procedures: 1 lateral e-TEP and 1 suprapubic e-TEP procedure
Faculty dinner in Ghent city center
Full day of hands-on training at Orsi Academy
Welcome and introduction to the course
Theoretical session: objectives within the e-TEP hernia approach
- Patient selection and hernia indications
- Preoperative diagnostics and preparations
- Patient positioning
- Identification of access side
- Port placement: caudal or lateral?
- Blunt dissection (handheld camera) ipsilateral space
- Create retro-muscular space
- Crossover maneuver upper abdomen
- Crossover maneuver lower abdomen
- Hernia mobilization and repositioning
- Single docking or dual docking?
- Evaluation on peritoneal perforations
- Reconstruction of anterior rectus sheat
- Mesh positioning and closure
- Post-operative follow-up
- Complication management
Coffee break and change in to OR scrubs
Hands-on training on human cadaver tissue
- Access and dissection
- Identification of access side
- Port placement and docking
- Create retro-muscular space
- Contralateral rectorectus space
- Exposure of the preperitoneal fat of falciform ligament
- Visualization of contralateral rectus muscle
- Control of peritoneal perforations
- Reconstruction of anterior rectus sheath
- Space measurement and mesh positioning
- Robot-assisted transversus abdominis release – Part 1
Lunch at Orsi restaurant
Hands-on training on human cadaver tissue
- Dissection and mesh placement
- Midline dissection
- Hernia mobilization and repositioning
- Dissection until lateral border rectus sheath + preservation of neurovascular bundles
- Closure
Debrief and end of the course
Prices
Standard fee
Price including VAT
Resources
Flyer Robotic e-TEP Hernia Repair 2025
This course is made possible by our sponsor, ConMed
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