Robotic Esophagectomy Course - Advanced Course

€4,810.00 - €5,820.00

Place

Orsi Academy,

12 Proefhoevestraat, 9090, Melle, Belgique

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Dates

May 26, 2025, 8:30 AM
May 27, 2025, 5:00 PM

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About

4 seats per session

English

Orsi Academy offers an Advanced 2-Day Course in Robotic Esophagectomy for thoracic and general surgeons with prior experience using the da Vinci robot and familiarity with upper GI surgery.

Proctored by top-experts Prof. Dr. Jelle Ruurda and Prof. Dr. Richard van Hillegersberg.

This 2-day masterclass consists of hands-on training on human cadaver tissue and theoretical sessions at Orsi Academy.

Medical devices

Intuitive da Vinci Xi robotic platform (2 robotic systems for 4 spots)

NEW YEAR'S DEAL: Register with code ORSINEWYEAR before February 15 & enjoy a 10% discount on the course!

What you will learn

To comprehensively cover advanced robot techniques in esophagael cancer.

A step-by-step approach for the abdominal and thoracic phase.

An overview on the port placement, tissue manipulation, tissue exposure and reconstruction

Speakers

Prof. Jelle Ruurda Gastro-intestinal and oncologic surgeon at UMC Utrecht, NL

Prof. Richard van Hillegersberg Professor of Surgery at UMC Utrecht, NL

Program

08:30 -

Arrival at Orsi Academy

08:30 - 08:45

Welcome & introduction to the course

08:45 - 10:30

Theoretical session: objectives within the abdominal phase of the esophagetomy

• Patient selection and preparation
• Port placement and docking
• Dissection of greater omentum
• Dissection of lesser omentum
• Creation of gastric conduit
• Securing the conduit for thoracic phase

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee break & change into scrubs

10:45 - 13:00

Hands-on session I: human cadaver abdominal phase

• Port placement and patient positioning
• Docking process
• Greater omentum dissection – left until right side to pylorus
• Attention on gastric arteries
• Preservation of omental flap

13:00 - 13:45

Lunch at Orsi restaurant

13:45 - 17:00

Hands-on session II: human cadaver abdominal phase

• Creation of gastric conduit
• Mobilization esophageal hiatus
• Free up area beneath esophagus
• Lesser omentum incised
• Circumferentially dissection of esophagus
• Pylorus mobilization to hiatus
• Creation of gastric conduit
• Securing conduit for entery thorax
• Jejunostomy placement

17:00 - 17:15

Wrap-up of the day

19:00 -

Faculty dinner at Ghent city center