1st International Course on Powered Instruments in Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

Program

08:30	Welcome, introduction and hand-outs	Weber
08:45	Lecture: Principles of shaver technology, advantages and risks, indications and contraindications	Weber
09:45	Demonstration: Systematic approach to equipment: HD-Videoendoscopy, Lightsource, Shaver, Navigation, Handinstruments	Weber
10:00	Master dissection and hands-on dissection*: Nasal endoscopy, septoplasty, turbinoplasty of the middle turbinate	Kühnel
10:45	Lecture, master dissection and hands-on dissection*: Uncinectomy / infundibulotomy, maxillary sinus ostium, middle meatal antrostomy type 1-3	Breuer
12:15	Lunch
13:15	Lecture, master dissection and hands-on dissection*: Dissection of the frontal recess, frontal sinus drainage type I, IIa, anterior ethmoidectomy (ethmoidal bulla), posterior ethmoidectomy	Hosemann

15:15	Coffee break
15:45	Lecture, master dissection and hands-on dissection*: spheno-ethmoidal recess, sphenoid ostium, transnasal / transethmoidal / transethmoidal-transnasal sphenoidotomy	Van Schaik
17:00	End of day 1
19:00	Course dinner

* One whole specimen is available for two participants (one side at disposal for each participant). Dissection is done on a rotating basis.

08:30	Lecture, master dissection and hands-on dissection*: extended approaches to the maxillary sinus: posterior translacrimal approach, prelacrimal approach	Hosemann
10:30	Coffee break
11:00	Lecture, master dissection and hands-on dissection*: DCR	Kühnel
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Lecture, master dissection and hands-on dissection*: Orbital decompression, optic nerve decompression	Kühnel
15:00	Lecture, master dissection and hands-on dissection*: Frontal sinus drainage Type III	Weber
16:30	Final test and Evaluation of FESS Course Coffee break	Faculty

17:00	Closing ceremony and certificates	Faculty

* One whole specimen is available for two participants (one side at disposal for each participant). Dissection is done on a rotating basis.