Robot-assisted MIDCAB - Cardiac Team Training | proctored by Dr. Frank Van Praet

The Robot-Assisted MIDCAB Team Training Course is a 1-day advanced course by Aalst Cardiac Academy.

Supported by Orsi Academy.

The aim is to offer a complete hands-on one-to-one training in robotically assisted MIDCAB using the da Vinci Surgical System allowing the cardiac surgeon and his team to start or improve this procedure back in their own hospitals. The course encompasses introductory theory, a live–in-a-box video, but is especially focusing on practice. It is provided by the pioneering expert Dr. Frank Van Praet from the Aalst Cardiac Academy with more than 20 years of experience with the daVinci technology.

The course is designed for one full cardiac team to participate and covers all costs of max. 5 team members.

The course covers all important surgical and clinical aspects related to the safe and successful application of the da Vinci robotic system in the field of robotically assisted MIDCAB. The course will be held during one intensive day of hands-on experience at Orsi Academy. The course can be tailored to meet individual needs.

The target participants for this advanced course is the console surgeon accompanied by members of his surgical team such as:

*first assist

*anesthesiologist

*perfusionist

*operating room nurse

The course price covers a cardiac team of max. 5 participants.

08:00 | Pick-up from the hotel lobby. Shuttle to Orsi Academy training centre.

Morning Session

08:30 - 09:45 | Presentation by Dr. Frank Van Praet

• Robotically assisted MIDCAB : the Aalst technique: approach, procedural steps, video live-in-a-box
• More then 20 years experience: results and strategy
• Indications
• Pitfalls

09:45 - 11:00 | Advanced dry-lab on thoracic cavity model

• Non rib spreading
• Mini-thoracotomy
• Tips and tricks for exposure and  anastomosis
• Performing anastomosis

11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee break

11:15 - 13:00 | Advanced wet-lab with human cadaver

• Port placement
• Docking process on the specific dV platform
• Left thorax cavity exposure
• IMA identification
• IMA harvest with robot
• Small thoracotomy incision
• Preparations for anastomosis

13:00 - 13:45 | Lunch

Afternoon Session

13:45 - 17:00 | Advanced wet-lab with anesthetized porcine model

Porcine LIMA harvest focusing on safety of IMA dissection and deviding LIMA branches in living animal model