International Practical Seminars in Microsurgery of Vessels and Nerves:

• October 11 - 14, 2006 - Timisoara
• March 14 - 17, 2007 - Timisoara
• October 11 - 14, 2007 - Timisoara

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Program Objectives
This seminar provides the development of the surgeons' technical skills in performing microvascular anastomosis in vessels and nerves in the living tissue (rat).

Seminars description
This is a four day seminar. Each day, the early mornings are spent with lectures about microsurgical techniques with particular interest to clinical use. After practical instruction has been given at the microscope, about micro-instruments and suture handling techniques, the course provides a total of 32 hours for evaluating all types of anastomotic techniques in alive animal model (Sprague-Dawley rats). The daily program is structured as follows:

1st day morning:
Suture techniques on latex

1st day evening:
Suture techniques on femoral vessels in a chicken leg model

2nd day morning:
Artery end-to-end

2nd day evening:
Vein end-to-end

3rd day morning:
Vein graft

3rd day evening:
Artery end-to-side
Official Dinner

4th day morning:
Nerve suturing techniques (e.g. epi-perineural, interfascicular, nerve grafts) on the sciatic nerve in a chicken leg model.

Every participant will have his own practice table equipped
with microscope, instruments and suture material and will perform the foreseen exercises under the supervision of 1 instructor with experience in microsurgery, for 8 hours training/day, three and a half days long)

See also:

Private Training
Flap Seminars in Living Tissue
Endoscopic Flap Disection Seminars

For information on prices, hotel accommodation, please contact:
Mihai Ionac, MD
Executive Director
Pius Branzeu Center for Laparoscopic Surgery and Microsurgery
2 Eftimie Murgu Sq.
300041 Timisoara
Tel. ++40 744 576691
Fax ++40 256 216510
email: mihai_ionac@rdstm.ro