General info
Orsi Academy offers a 2-day course in Robotic Low Anterior Resection surgery for surgeons who want master the robotic surgery approach. With a strong focus on hands-on training, participants will optimize their technique through expert guidance and human cadaver lab sessions.
This 2-day course consists of:
- Hands-on training on human cadaver tissue, isolated organic models and theoretical sessions at Orsi Academy
What you will learn
- To comprehensively cover the robotic technique in Low anterior resection
- Good understanding of the robotic port placement
- Overview of the procedure related robotic instruments
- Improvement of dissection skills to facilitate the mobilization and ligation steps within the procedure
- Optimizing anastomosis technique – hand-sewn versus robotic stapled
Faculty
Program
Welcome and introduction to the course
Theoretical session: Personal experience with robotic surgery
Theoretical session: Robotic surgery why?
- Tips for getting through the learning curve
- Patient selection criteria
- Setting goals
Theoretical session: OR setup
- Port Placement & Patient Positioning
- Adequate Instrument Selection & Energy Use
- Overview of the procedure steps
- IMA ligatio
- Medial to lateral mobilisation
- IMV ligation
- Splenic flexure mobilization
- Pelvic dissection – posterior, anterior, and lateral
- Division of mesentery – use of ICG
- Robotic stapling and anastomosis
- Use of the 3rd arm for Retraction
Coffee break & change into scrubs
Hands-on training on isolated bowel model (multiple) in abdominal trainer
- Port placement and robotic set-up simulation
- Dissection skills by skeletonize and dividing vessels in mesentery of bowel specimen
- Bowel resection by stapling and anastomosis (ICA hand-swen vs stapling)
Lunch at Orsi restaurant
Hands-on training on isolated bowel model (multiple) in abdominal trainer
- Bowel resection by stapling and anastomosis ( ICA hand-swen vs stapling)
- Robotic manipulation of anvil and position of the bowel
- Multiple repetition of the different key steps
End of day 1
Faculty dinner in Ghent city center
Theoretical session
- Case discussion and tips and tricks in more complex cases
- Vascular control
- Management of complications
Hands-on training on human cadaver tissue
- IMA exposure and clipping – IMV division
- Left-sided colon resection
- Medial to lateral mobilization of colon
- Splenic flexure takedown
Lunch at Orsi restaurant
Hands-on training on human cadaver tissue
- Intra-operative adjustments (table motion – dual docking – port hopping)
- Rectal dissection
- Identification of SRA – dissecting the TME plan
- Identification of hypogastric nerves
- Posterior dissection rectum
- Right lateral and anterior dissection rectum
- Left lateral dissection
- Excision of rectum by stapling
- Anastomosis
- Specimen extraction and circular stapling
Debriefing and feedback
End of the course
Prices
Standard fee
Incl. of VAT
Resources
Low anterior resection course 2026
HOLIDAY CLOSURE NOTICE
Please note that no course applications will be reviewed or processed between December 16 and January 4 due to our holiday closure.
You may still submit your application during this period, but approval or rejection will only resume once our team returns on January 5.
Thank you for your understanding!
