Wednesday, March 29, 2000: SAGES Hands-on Course

Endoscopic Management of Colorectal Disease

Course Director: Steven Wexner, MD

Laboratory Directors: Michael Holzman, MD and Fredrick Brody, MD

Course Description: This one day course focuses on endoscopic management of colorectal disease and consists of a morning didactic session with illustrative lectures, video demonstration, question/answer sessions, and panel discussions. This is followed by a four hour afternoon porcine model animate laboratory with intensive hands-on training. The participants will perform a colon resection, as well as learn stapling and suturing techniques, colonoscopy, intraluminal colonoscopic stent placement, and anal and rectal ultrasound. Expert faculty will instruct participants in a 1:3 faculty:trainee ratio.

Who Should Attend:

• Practicing surgeons who are experienced in other advanced laparoscopic surgical procedures and wish to expand their knowledge of laparoscopic surgery.
• Fourth or Fifth-year residents (SAGES candidate members only) with a minimum experience of 40 laparoscopic cholecystectomies.
• Nurse and GI Assistants with an interest in minimally invasive surgery may attend the didactic session.

Objectives:

• Review the indications and contraindications of laparoscopic colectomy
• Evaluate techniques of laparoscopic colectomy
• Evaluate methods of avoiding and treating complications
• Assess techniques of anorectal ultrasonography and advanced colonoscopy

Included in Registration:

Lecture and Lab: Program materials will be available at the Registration desk beginning Monday, March 27, 2000 at 4:00 PM. Your lab assignment and instructions will be included in your on-site Registration packet. Fee includes all program materials, continental breakfast, lunch, and breaks. Enrollment is limited to 90.

Lecture Only: Program materials will be available at the Registration desk beginning 4:00 PM on Monday. Fee includes all program materials, continental breakfast, and breaks. (Lunch on your own). Enrollment is limited to 300.

Course Schedule:

7:30-7:45	Welcome and overview of the day	S. Wexner
7:45-8:00	Indications and contraindications	R. Rosenthal
8:00-8:15	Complications and their avoidance	R. L. Whelan
8:15-8:30	Instrumentation and preparation	P. Marcello
8:30-8:45	Anorectal ultrasonography	D. Wong
8:45-9:00	Colonoscopic polypectomy-conquering the difficult polyp (video)	L. Smith
9:00-9:15	Treatment of colonic strictures	K. Ludwig
9:15-9:30	Pediatric laparoscopic colorectal surgery	K. Georgeson
9:30-10:00	PANEL DISCUSSION, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS	S. Wexner
10:00-10:15	BREAK
10:15-10:30	TECHNICAL TIPS (VIDEO)
10:30-10:45	Right hemicolectomy and ileocolic resection	B. Salky
10:45-11:00	Laparoscopic hepatic ultrasound	J. Milsom
11:00-11:15	Left hemicolectomy/sigmoid colectomy	K. Zucker
11:15-11:30	Anterior resection	M. Franklin
11:30-11:45	Abdominoperineal resection	J. Fleshman
11:45-12:00	Stoma creation and closure	E. Weiss
12:00-12:15	Enterolysis	P. Reissman
12:15-12:45	PANEL DISCUSSION, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS	S. Wexner
12:45-1:15	LUNCH for lab participants
1:15-1:30	Introduction to the lab	F. Brody/M. Holzman
1:30-5:30	LAB

Additional Lab Instructors:

Bruce Belin, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Mitchell Bernstein, New York, NY

Sander Binderow, Atlanta, GA

Mark Callery, Worcester, MA

Ronald Clements, Birmingham, AL

Stephen Cohen, Atlanta, GA

Jonathan Efron, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Istvan Gal Gyongyos, Hungary

Todd Heniford, Charlotte, NC

Karen Horvath, Seattle, WA

Brian Jerby, St. Louis, MO

John Marks, Wynnewood, PA

Jeff Marks, Mayfield Heights, OH

Scott Melvin, Columbus, OH

Richard Newman, New York, NY

Margaret Oddsdottir, Iceland

Guy Orangio, Decatur, GA

Adrian Ortega, Los Angeles, CA

Fabio Potenti, Providence, RI

Laurence Sands, Miami, FL

Mark Sher, New Hyde Park, NY

Jay Singh, Atlanta, GA

Zoltan Szabo, Ph.D., San Francisco, CA

Ted Trus, Charleston, SC

Tonia Young-Fadok, Rochester, MN

SAGES acknowledges generous educational grants from the following companies in support of the Hands-on Course.

B-K Medical Systems, Inc.

C.B. Fleet Co., Inc.

Circon Corporation, A Maxxim Medical Company

Dexterity, Inc.

Everest Medical Group

Karl Storz Endoscopy-America

Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp.

Smith + Nephew Endoscopy

Stryker Endoscopy

Autosuture-A Division of TYCO Healthcare Group, LP

Valleylab, Inc.

 

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