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OPEN SPINAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES

Course Overview Highlights

This comprehensive 2-day course is a presentation of simple and complex operative open approaches in spinal surgery. Experts on the subject will present the anatomical and technical aspects of this procedure along with risks, benefits and outcomes.

The course features interactive lecture sessions, fresh anatomical specimen dissection (including cadaveric skills stations, anatomical models, and state-of-the-art equipment), training videos, and case presentations.  Participants will have an opportunity to enhance their knowledge regarding simple and complex approaches to the spine.

This course is sponsored by the Department of Neurological Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences.

Educational Objectives

This workshop has been designed to provide the orthopedic surgeons, spine surgeons and Neurosurgeons with the opportunity to enhance their own skills in a variety of surgical approaches to spine. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Incorporate various techniques into their approach for cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine surgery.
  • Identify the indications, results and potential complications for these procedures.

 

Who Should Attend

This advanced course is designed for neurosurgeons, orthopedicians and spine surgeons who are interested in the most recent developments in minimally invasive surgery of spine.

  

Day-1 Basic Course

9 – 9.15 AM                      Course introduction and Faculty and participant introduction

9.15-9.30 AM                   Pre Test

9.30 – 10.30 AM  Lectures (15 min each)

  1. Transoral Surgery for Cranio-Vertebral Junction abnormalities
  2. Upper and lower Cervical Posterior instrumentation techniques
  3. Anterior cervical discectomy/ corpectomy and fusion
  4. Transpedicular instrumentation of thoracolumbar spine

10.30- 10.50 AM- Videos- short 5-minute video each

  1. Anterior Odontoid screw instrumentation
  2. Transoral Odontoidectomy for AAD
  3. Anterior Cervical Discectomy with fusion
  4. Transpedicular instrumentation of Thoracolumbar spine

10.30 AM – 1 PM             Surgical Demonstrations (30 min each)     

  1. O-C1,C2 Instrumentation
  2. Cervical lateral mass fixation
  3. Cervical pedicle Screw fixation
  4. TL Pedicle screw fixation
  5. Anterior Odontoid Screw

1 – 2 PM   Lunch

2 – 5 PM   Hands on Dissection on all Exercises

  

Day-2 Advanced Course

9 – 10.30 AM- Lectures- (15 min each)

  1. Posterior approach to Cranio-vertebral junction- C1-2 Facet distraction/ DCR Technique in AAD
  2. Approaches to Cervico thoracic junction
  3. High anterior cervical retropharyngeal approach to ventral cranio- vertebral junction and upper cervical spine
  4. Lateral extracavitary approach to thoraco lumbar spine
  5. Anterior Lumbar interbody fusion- Indications and technique
  6. Posterior and transforaminal Lumbar interbody fusion- Indications and technique

10.30- 10.50 AM- Videos- short 5-minute video each

  1. DCR Technique
  2. Anterior Lumbar Interbody fusion
  3. Transforaminal lumbar Interbody fusion
  4. Lateral extracavitary approach

10.30 AM – 1 PM Surgical Demonstrations (50 min each)        

  1. C1,2 Facet distraction and DCR technique
  2. Lateral, extracavitary approach to thoraco lumbar spine
  3. Posterior and transforaminal Lumbar interbody fusion

1 – 2 PM   Lunch

2 – 4.30 PM                      Hands on Dissection on all Exercises

4.30- 4.45 PM                  Post-test and valedictory