“Minimally Invasive Surgery of Thoracolumbar Spine” Educational Course

01 February 2018

Educational course

«Minimally invasive surgery of thoracolumbar spine»

Dates: July 27-28, 2017

Venue: Federal Neurosurgical Center, Novosibirsk

Participants: invited participants, staff of spinal division of the Federal Neurosurgical Center (Novosibirsk).

Lecturers:

Artyom O.Guscha MD, PhD, Professor of neurosurgical division of the Russian Medical Academy of Post-graduate training (Moscow);

Valeriy I.Manaschuk MD, PhD, Head of neurosurgical division of the Federal Neurosurgical Center (Tyumen);

Vladimir S.Klimov MD, PhD, Head of neurosurgical division of the Federal Neurosurgical center (Novosibirsk);

Aleksey V.Evsyukov MD, neurosurgeon of spinal division of the Federal Neurosurgical Center (Novosibirsk);

Moderators:

Aleksandr V.Bulatov, a neurosurgeon of spinal division of the Federal Neurosurgical Center (Novosibirsk);

Roman V.Khalepa?, a neurosurgeon of spinal division of the Federal Neurosurgical Center (Novosibirsk).

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PROGRAM

July 27, 2017

09:00 – 09:30 Registration of the course participants

09:30 – 09:40 Greetings, welcome words (J.Rzaev)

09:40 – 10:20 MIS in treatment of degenerative spine pathology (V.Klimov)

10:20 – 11:00 Endoscopic methods of surgical treatment of degenerative spine pathology (A.Guscha)

11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 – 12:00 Minimally invasive spine surgery with the usage of stabilizing systems under neuronavigation control (V.Manaschuk)

12:00 – 12:40 Discussion of clinical cases

12:40 – 13:20 Revision possibilities of MIS technologies in spine surgery

13:20 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Practical skills of minimally invasive spine surgery with the usage of PathFinder NXT and Ardis systems on plastic training models.

July 28, 2017

09:00 – 09:15 Meeting

09:15 – 10:00 Discussion of clinical cases from participants of the course

10:00 – 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 – 14:30 Surgical show case with broadcasting from the OR:

1. Endoscopic thoracolumbar spine disc hernia removal.

2. MIS TLIF, transcutaneous transpedicular fixation on thoracolumbar spine.

14:30 – 15:30 Lunch

15:30 – 16:00 Closing remarks

16:00 – 17:00 Meeting of the Siberian Association of Neurosurgeons “SibNeuro”

1. Application of endoscopy in spine surgery (A.Guscha);

2. Neuronavigation in spine surgery (V.Manaschuk);

3. Benchmarking study of MIS technologies application in treatment of degenerative thoracolumbar spine pathology (V.Klimov);

4. Early and delayed complications of MIS technologies (A.Evsyukov);

5. Our experience in endoscopic thoracolumbar spine disc hernia removal (R.Khalepa).