OBJECTIVES

The objective of this webinar series is to provide a comprehensive modular training program for colorectal surgeons that are willing to move to minimally invasive techniques or move to more complex minimally invasive procedures. The whole program includes 11 modules starting from basic laparoscopic techniques until much more complex procedures. 

CONTENTS

Each 90 minutes module will include presentations, interactive discussions , tips & tricks, videos, cases and questions and answers 

TARGET AUDIENCE

This program is adressed to general and colorectal surgeons willing to move to minimally invasive techniques. 

Lead Faculty

Essentials

Basic of laparoscopic colorectal surgery

  • Welcome and Introduction - Colin Sietses
  • Basic of laparoscopic colorectal surgery  and core skills - Andreas Shamiyeh
  • Anatomy & approach - Walter Brunner
  • Training - Victor Tomulescu
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All

Laparoscopic left colon + sigmoid surgery

  • Welcome and Introduction - Andreas Shamiyeh
  • Patient Selection & Indications, Preparation - Walter Brunner
  • Description of the full procedure left colon - malignant (anatomical aspects, procedure Step by step) - Colin Sietses 
  • Description of the full procedure sigmoid resection - benign (anatomical aspects,  procedure Step by step) - Walter Brunner
  • Tips & tricks for people passing from open to laparoscopic approach. - Andreas Shamiyeh
  • Local Perspective and Region specifics - Khaled Madbouly 
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All

Laparoscopic right colon surgery

  • Welcome and Introduction - Walter Brunner 
  • Patient Selection & Indications, Preparation - Andreas Shamiyeh
  • Description of the full procedure right colon (anatomical aspects, procedure step by step ) - Colin Sietses 
  • Anastomotic techniques - Andreas Shamiyeh
  • Tips & tricks for people passing from open to laparoscopic approach. - Walter Brunner  
  • Local Perspective and Region specifics - Omar Abdullah AlObaid
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All

ERAS IN COLORECTAL SURGERY, PRINCIPLES AND IMPLEMENTATION

  • Welcome and Introduction  - Andreas Shamiyeh, Walter Brunner, Colin Sietses 
  • ERAS Principles - Martin Hübner
  • Implementation, Critical steps, Tips & Tricks - Carla Coimbra, Jean Joris 
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers  - All

Complications

Complications during surgery and how to deal with them

  • Welcome and Introduction - Colin Sietses
  • Critical steps in laparoscopic colorectal surgery - Walter Brunner
  • Intraoperative bleeding & leakage - Andreas Shamiyeh 
  • Case – Presacral bleeding during rectal surgery - Ziad El Rassi
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All

Postoperative complications and its management 

  • Welcome and Introduction - Colin Sietses
  • Leakage & Ischemia - Andreas Shamiyeh
  • Paralysis, postoperative Ileus - Willem Bemelmann 
  • Bleeding - Michał Pędziwiatr 
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All

Special Topics

Special situations in laparoscopic colonic surgery 

  • Welcome and Introduction - Walter Brunner
  • Flexure Mobilization - Colin Sietses
  • Transverse colon resections - Walter Brunner
  • Subtotal and total proctocolectomy - Friedrich Herbst
  • Case Presentation - Michał Pędziwiatr
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All

Principles of ICG and fluorescence imaging

  • Welcome and Introduction - Walter Brunner
  • Principles / Indications of fluorescence imaging - Colin Sietses
  • ICG in laparoscopic colorectal surgery - Andreas Shamiyeh 
  • Case - Ahmed Shoukry
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All

ENDOMETRIOSIS & RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA

  • Welcome and Introduction - Walter Brunner, Colin Sietses 
  • Overview endometriosis from surgeons & gynecologists view - Andreas Shamiyeh, Peter Oppelt 
  • Surgical techniques in endometriosis - Jurriaan Tuynman
  • Rectovaginal fistula - Roel Hompes
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All

PELVIC FLOOR DISORDERS & MIS, SACRAL NEUROMODULATION

  • Welcome and Introduction - Walter Brunner, Andreas Shamiyeh 
  • Surgical management of functional pelvic disorders - Fecal Incontinence & Obstructed Defecation   Sushil Maslekar
  • Rectocele & Pelvic Floor Prolapse - Felix Aigner  
  • LARS Management and Sacral Neuromodulation  - Franco Marinello 
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All

IBD SURGERY, CROHN´S & ULCERATIVE COLITIS

  • Welcome and Introduction - Andreas Shamiyeh, Colin Sietses
  • Overview - Stephan Brand, Walter Brunner 
  • Surgery in Ulcerative Colitis - Friedrich Herbst
  • Surgery in Crohn´s Disease - Willem Bemelman
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers  - All

Rectum

MINIMALLY INVASIVE RECTUM SURGERY  

  • Welcome and Introduction - Andreas Shamiyeh 
  • Laparoscopic PME / TME - Walter Brunner
  • Intersphincteric Resection - Eric Rullier 
  • Restorative Surgery - Friedrich Herbst 
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All

Transanal approaches part 1 – TAMIS 

  • Welcome and Introduction - Walter Brunner
  • TAMIS - Literature - Colin Sietses
  • How to perform TAMIS - Roel Hompes
  • Complication management & Salvage surgery after TAMIS - Juriaan Tuynman 
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All

Transanal approaches part 2 – TaTME 

  • Welcome and Introduction - Colin Sietses
  • Why Transanal TME, what about safety? - Walter Brunner
  • How to perform TaTME - Joep Knol
  • Pitfalls in TaTME - Colin Sietses
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All

Apr and exenteration

  • Welcome and Introduction - Colin Sietses
  • Laparoscopic APR - Andreas Shamiyeh
  • Laparoscopic Exenteration - Ian Jenkins
  • Avoidance of parastomal & perineal hernia - Walter Brunner
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All

Advanced

D3 Lymph node removal, T4 tumors (lap) 

  • Welcome and Introduction - Andreas Shamiyeh
  • D3 lymph node removal - Felix Aigner
  • T4 Tumors in laparoscopic colorectal surgery - Walter Brunner 
  • Case - Michał Pędziwiatr 
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All

MANAGEMENT OF ADVANCED COLORECTAL CANCER DISEASE ​

  • Welcome and Introduction - Colin Sietses​, Walter Brunner
  • Management in advanced Colorectal Cancer Disease - Ian Jenkins
  • Options in minimal invasive liver surgery - Fernando Rotellar
  • Peritoneal Carcinosis HIPEC - Brendan Moran
  • Discussion and Questions & Answers - All