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Programme

The programme will include

  • Theoretical issues on robotic surgery in the chest
  • Hands-on large animal studies of Thymectomy and Lobectomy

  Thursday 1 February Friday 2 February Saturday 3 February
GENERAL ASPECTS MEDIASTINUM LUNG
Speakers T Treasure, London
F Melfi, Pisa
J Rückert, Berlin
RA Schmid, Bern
C Varinelli, Intuitive		 F Rea, Padua
J Rückert, Berlin
D Schneiter, Zurich
W Wisser, Vienna

F Melfi, Pisa
L Spaggiari, Milan
Th Schmid, Innsbruck
RA Schmid, Bern

09:00-11:30 Introduction to the daVinci-System Indications and Technique Indications and Technique
Room 'Paradiso' Wirtschaftsgebäude
  • System Overview
  • Port Placement
  • Avoidance of interference
  • Instruments change
  • Thymectomy
  • Resection of tumours
  • Mammary artery harvest
  • Lobectomy
  • Mediastinal lymphadenectomy
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-17:30 HANDS-ON STUDIES
University Hospital Bern
Experimental Surgical Institute (ESI)
  • Surgical Skills drill
  • Grip Strength
  • Transaction
  • Ligation
  • Dissection
  • Intracorporal suturing
  • Anastomosis
  • Thymectomy
  • Resection of tumors, anterior-posterior mediastinum
  • Pericardial cysts, Neurinoma
  • Internal mammary artery harvest
  • Lobectomy
  • Mediastinal lymphadenectomy
19:30 Dinner  
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