>CYBER-BASED EDUCATION AND DISTANT LEARNING

ADVANCED LAPAROSCOPIC SKILLS & SUTURING

Course Objectives 

  • Enable participants to efficiently perform a hand-sewn bowel anastomosis
  • Establish a teamwork approach in accomplishing complex minimally invasive tasks
  • Allow participants to master suturing assist devices
  • Learn extracorporeal suturing techniques

Typical Course Agenda

DAY ONE
8:00-8:30 Breakfast/Registraion
8:30-9:00 Introduction
9:00-9:45 Review:
Intracorporeal Suturing
 - Port Placement
Explanation of Extracorporeal Suturing
 - "Fisherman's Knot"
Advanced Laparoscopic Suturing
 - Presentation on Bowel Anastamosis
9:45-11:00 Dexterity Drills
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:30 Practice: Extracorporeal & Running Suturing
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-4:30 Inanimate Bowel Anastamosis
4:30-5:30 Grading and Exit Interviews

All participants must stay the duration of the course.
Participants much have completed the Basic Laparoscopic Skills Course


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