“The Spinal Surgery Simulation Course was developed to optimize and consolidate the minimally invasive surgical technique of the lumbar spine, offering the unique opportunity to train on very realistic surgical simulators. By mimicking anatomy, the critical structures at risk, intra-operative bleeding and other complications, overcoming the limitations of cadaveric dissections, which are far removed from real-life scenarios, this is a unique opportunity to consolidate technical gestures.
This course will cover subjects such as surgical planning, the step-by-step stages, the management of complications and the post-operative management of the most common surgical procedures – lumbar decompression, microdiscectomy and transforaminal lumbar fusion – in a relaxed learning environment, but replicating the intra-operative scenario.
Recipients

• Neurosurgeons
• Orthopedic Surgeons
• Operating Room Nurses

Objectives

• Diagnosis and therapeutic guidance based on clinical evidence;
• Discuss the technology and devices for minimally invasive spinal surgery (MISS);
• To implement a treatment plan and surgical strategy for lumbar disc herniation, lumbar stenosis and spondylolisthesis;
• Perform a safe approach to the spinal canal and lumbar decompression;
• Perform an extraforaminal approach and microdiscectomy;
• Perform a percutaneous lumbar transpedicular fixation;
• Perform a transforaminal lumbar fusion in spondylolisthesis;
• Repairing a dural tear;
• Discuss the main complications of minimally invasive spinal surgery (MISS) of the lumbar spine

Duration
10 hours”