Overview
This one and half day course, aimed at consultants and senior trainees in ENT, offers one to one direct training and guidance from an expert faculty. The complexity of this type of surgery is such that our faculty accounts for a considerable proportion of the entire UK experience base for these advanced techniques. The aim is to educate participants in the anatomical basis of new endoscopic procedures, provide supervised surgical rehearsal, develop instrument handling skills thus fostering safe adoption of new technically exacting techniques for use in hazard rich area of anterior skull base surgery. The course uses short didactic lectures, case scenarios and a stepwise dissection DVD. The mainstay is closely supervised cadaveric dissection.
Target Audience
Consultants and senior trainees in ENT
Learning Style
The course uses short didactic lectures, case scenarios and a stepwise dissection DVD. The mainstay is closely supervised cadaveric dissection.
Aims & Objectives
Endoscopic Sinonasal Surgery is an expanding surgical discipline which embraces techniques used in both benign disease management and in oncological surgery. The rate of development of techniques is rapid and there is a need for realistic, safe, guided training via supervised cadaveric surgical simulation. This course offers one to one direct training and guidance from an expert faculty. The complexity of this type of surgery is such that out faculty accounts for a considerable proportion of the entire UK experience base for these advanced techniques. The aim is to educate participants in the anatomical basis of new endoscopic procedures, provide supervised surgical rehearsal, develop instrument handling skills thus fostering safe adoption of new technically exacting techniques for use in hazard rich area of anterior skull base surgery.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, participants should be able to; 1)describe the anatomy of the paranasal sinuses and the anterior skull base regions. 2)Demonstrate endoscopic instrument handling techniques. 3)Perform powered instrumentation in the confines of the anterior skull base. 4)Locate and ligate the sphenopalatine artery. 5)Demostrate techniques for dealing with intra-operative comlications e.g. expanding orbital haematoma. 6)Interpret CT scans of normal frontal sinus variants. 7)Perform manipulations around the pituitary, optic nerve and internal carotid artery regions.
Additional Information
This one and half day course, aimed at consultants and senior trainees in ENT, offers one to one direct training and guidance from an expert faculty. The complexity of this type of surgery is such that our faculty accounts for a considerable proportion of the entire UK experience base for these advanced techniques. The aim is to educate participants in the anatomical basis of new endoscopic procedures, provide supervised surgical rehearsal, develop instrument handling skills thus fostering safe adoption of new technically exacting techniques for use in hazard rich area of anterior skull base surgery. The course uses short didactic lectures, case scenarios and a stepwise dissection DVD. The mainstay is closely supervised cadaveric dissection.