UC IRVINE SKULL BASE – SINUS SURGERY COURSE

Saturday June 17, 2006

Didactic Session, Building 53 auditorium

7:00-8:00 am Course registration and continental breakfast

8:00-8:05 am Welcome and announcements

Roger L. Crumley, MD., MBA, William B. Armstrong, MD, Larry Gold, Quoc A Nguyen, MD, Univ.-Prof.DDr. Gerhard Franz Walter

8:05-8:20 am Macropathology of Skull Base Tumors Walters

8:20-8:35 am Anatomy of sinuses & surrounding tissues Vokes/Armstrong

8:35-8:55 am Anatomy and imaging of the skull base Hasso

8:55-9:10 am The Graz CT Checklist Braun

9:10-9:25 am New Endoscopes and instruments Nguyen

9:25-9:45 am OR-set-up for Endoscopic Patients Stammberger

9:45-10:05 am Advanced Endoscopic Techniques Using Keschner

Surgical Navigation

10:05-10:25 am Coffee break

10;25-10:45 am Intraoperative MRI Linskey

10:45-11:05 am MRI and CT fusion with neuronavigation Stammberger

11:05-11:35 am Endoscopic medial maxillectomy Stammberger

11:35-12:05 am Advanced Frontal Sinus Techniques Wrobel

12:05-12:15 pm Questions/Lecture evaluation form completion

12:15-1:00 pm Lunch (Location TBA)

Laboratory Dissection, Building 55 basement

1:00-1:15 pm Laboratory Introduction, bloodborne safety

Neuronavigation Instrumentation stations GE/Medtronic

1:15-1:45 pm Guided prosection medial maxillectomy Stammberger

and sphenopalatine artery ligation

1:45-3:15 pm Anatomical dissection

3:15-3:45 pm Guided prosection Frontal Sinus techniques Stammberger/Rice

3:45-5:15 pm Anatomical dissection

5:15-5:30 pm Clean up, completion of lab evaluation forms

Coffee and refreshments will be available during the afternoon session

Exhibit tables for sponsors

Da Vinci Robot Station-Learn about capabilities of robotic surgery systems and use robot on testing apparatus (instrument manipulation, grasping, knot tying, etc.)

Saturday lab dissection agenda

Endoscopic sphenopalatine artery ligation

Medial maxillectomy

Frontal sinus dissection

DaVinci Robot setup station

Sunday June 18, 2006

Didactic Session, Building 53 auditorium

7:30-8:00 am Continental breakfast

8:00-8:10 am Announcements Armstrong/Nguyen

8:10-8:30 am Endoscopic orbital decompression Nguyen

8:30-8:50 am Endoscopic optic nerve decompression Braun

8:50-9:10 am Repair of CSF leaks/encephaloceles Stammberger

910-9:30 am Evaluation and management of the Carotid Nwagwu

Artery In Skull Base Surgery

9:30-9:50 am Management of Bleeding Stammberger

9:50-10:10 am Endoscopic team approach to the Linskey

Pituitary fossa

10:10-10:30 A Neurosurgeons View on Endoscopic Mokry

Approaches to the Pituitary

10:30-10:40 am Coffee break

10:40-11:00 am Complications: Prevent, Diagnose, Manage Rice

11:00-11:30 am Extended Approaches to the Skull base Stammberger

and clivus

11:30-11:45 am Discussion/complete evaluations Faculty/Participants

11:45-12:15 pm Lunch (Location TBA)

Laboratory Dissection, Building 55 basement (12:30-5:00)

12:15 -12:20 Introduction, announcements

12:20-12:50 Guided prosection: Optic nerve decompression Braun

12:50-2:00 Anatomical dissections

2:00-2:30 Guided prosection: Pituitary fossa dissection Mokry/Stammberger

2:30-3:30 Anatomical dissections

3:30-4:00 Guided prosection; Dissection of clivus Stammberger

CSF leak repair

4:00-5:15 Anatomical dissections/

5:15-5:30 Wrapup/final evaluations

Sunday Lab Dissection Goals

Optic nerve decompression

Pituitary fossa dissection

Anterior skull base dissection

Dissection of clivus

CSF leak repair

DaVinci Robot setup station