Past activities

Our past activities are workshops to acquire knowledge in clinical (especially surgical) anatomy
and skill in its use as a tool for surgical procedures

All workshops have two main parts

List of past activities

XIII^th ADVANCED LAPAROSCOPIC WORKSHOP ON FEMALE PELVIC SURGICAL ANATOMY ON UNENBALMED CADAVERS

Barcelona, Spain, 20^th – 21^st March 2019

ORGANIZERS

Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
Consorci Sanitari Integral Sede: Hospital General de l’Hospitalet
Departament d’Anatomia, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona

WHAT IS THE CORE OF THE COURSES?

The essence of the workshop is SURGICAL ANATOMY.  Not anatomy, nor surgical technics. But what surgical anatomy is? The technics that give us the opportunity to turn a map (anatomy) on to a road book and therefore allow us to answer, at all times, the three main questions related to safety during a surgical procedure:

• What is that?
• Where is it?
• Which way?

HOW ARE WE DOING IT?

Ascending three steps:

1. Review of pelvic anatomy: theoretical lecture, with three main items supporting the lecture:
   • Schemes
   • Atlas imaging
   • Video sequences of dissections or real surgery
2. Learning and understanding what is surgical anatomy, and thus constructing our road book through female pelvis: theoretical lecture
3. Doing it in the dissection room: practical session hands on in unembalmed female cadavers, with just two attendants for each corpse.
4. As an additional help, there will be previously dissected fresh pieces to consult at any moment during practice under tutor’s supervision

LAPAROSCOPIC PELVIC
ANATOMY COURSE

Friday 20^th March 2019

Schedule:

Hands-on will start by access to the abdominal cavity. Dissection of the following areas must be made for each attendant:

• Posterior pelvic spaces and fossae (the following structures must be identified: sacral promontory area including aortic and cava bifurcation; hypogastric nerve and plexus; great pelvic vessels; sciatic nerve and its origin; sciatic spine identification; recto-vaginal septum)
• Parametrium area (the following structures must be identified: Terminal branches of the hypogastric artery as the uterine artery, vesical artery and umbilical artery)
• External iliac vessels (extern iliac artery and vein, branches in the surgical field including corona mortis and deep circumflex iliac artery, if presents) and genitocrural nerve
• Paraaortic space (the following structures must be identified: Aorta artery and cava vein and its branches until renal vessels, paying special attention to identify ovarian vessels)

In all the previous areas the ureter must be always localized and «under control»

Saturday 21^st March 2019

Schedule:

Hands-on will start with abdominal access identifying the following structures:

• Anterior pelvic spaces and fossae (the following structures must be identified: Retzius space with endopelvic fascia and arcus tendineum, levator ani and internal obturator muscles, obturator fossa with vessels and nerves and all paravesical space).
• Pelvic fascia and elevator insertions, cephalic side of the obturator space, the sciatic spine, the retropubic-prevesical (Retzius) space, pubic symphysis and Cooper’s ligament.
• Access to the vesico-vaginal space.
• Access to the recto-vaginal space.

Special attention will be paid to the main points of surgical procedures to correct pelvic floor dysfunctions, with or without prosthetic material, even if its use is not the essential target of the workshop

COURSE DIRECTORS

Prof. F. Carmona
Dr. E. Cayuela
Prof. M. Monzó
Dr. J. Vilanova

SCIENTIFIC SECRETARY

Mariona Rius. marius@clinic.ub.es

FACULTY

Members of both gynaecology departments and expert specialists invited from all over Spain:

• Barri
• Chiva
• Degollada
• Gil
• Gilabert
• Gorostidi
• Martínez
• Tejerizo

WHERE WILL THIS OCCUR?

In the Anatomy Department, both classrooms and dissection room, of the School of Medicine of the University of Barcelona. Casanovas St, 143, Barcelona.

REGISTRATION

1. This is an advanced workshop. Laparoscopic and anatomic skills are required
2. The attendance is limited up to fourteen people. The registration order will be by payment of registration rates.
3. Registration rate: 2000€. Coffee-break, lunch, dinner with faculty and certificate are included. Twenty hours of compulsory assistance.
4. Further information will be provided for the registration procedure in the coming weeks.

LANGUAGE

Official language is English. Attendants can get help in some other languages (Spanish, Catalan, French and Italian for sure) but not on site translation is possible

ACCOMODATION

The organization can help attendants in hotel booking.

List of previous courses

The title of the courses has been maintained in the original language

• Barcelona, 27 y 28 Enero 2006: 1º WORKSHOP DE CIRUGÍA GINECOLÓGICA EN CADÁVERES. Laparoscopia y suelo pélvico.
• Barcelona, 3 y 4 Junio 2008: 2º WORKSHOP DE ANATOMÍA QUIRÚRGICA y CIRUGÍA GINECOLÓGICA EN CADÁVERES. Incluye TVT, TOT y aplicación de mallas.
• Barcelona, 19th May 2009: 1st INTERNATIONAL CLINIC WORKSHOP. LESS ON GYNECOLOGY.
• Barcelona, 20th May 2009: 1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP. SURGICAL PELVIC FLOOR ANATOMY IN CADAVERS. Includes mesh application for urinary incontinence and genital prolapse.
• Barcelona,  21 y 22 Mayo 2010: IV WORKSHOP DE ANATOMÍA QUIRÚRGICA y CIRUGÍA GINECOLÓGICA EN CADÁVERES. Incluye TVT, TOT y aplicación de mallas..
• Barcelona, 28th September 2010: Satellite Workshop ESGE Congress 2010. ADVANCED COURSE ON UNEMBALMED FEMALE CADAVERS.
• Barcelona, 11 y 12 Marzo 2011: Vth WORKSHOP DE ANATOMÍA QUIRÚRGICA EN CADÁVERES
• Barcelona, 9 y 10 Marzo 2012: VIth FEMALE PELVIS ANATOMY WORKSHOPS IN UNEMBALMED CADAVERS
• Barcelona, 1 y 2 Marzo 2013: VIIth ADVANCED WORKSHOP ON FEMALE PELVIC SURGICAL ANATOMY ON UNENBALMED CADAVERS.
• Barcelona, 3rd and 4th June 2014: VIIIth ADVANCED LAPAROSCOPIC WORKSHOP ON FEMALE PELVIC SURGICAL ANATOMY ON UNENBALMED CADAVERS.
• Barcelona, 20th and 21st March 2015: IXth ADVANCED LAPAROSCOPIC WORKSHOP ON FEMALE PELVIC SURGICAL ANATOMY ON UNENBALMED CADAVERS.
• Barcelona, 20th and 21st May 2016: Xth ADVANCED LAPAROSCOPIC WORKSHOP ON FEMALE PELVIC SURGICAL ANATOMY ON UNENBALMED CADAVERS.
• Barcelona, 19th and 20th May 2017: XIth ADVANCED LAPAROSCOPIC WORKSHOP ON FEMALE PELVIC SURGICAL ANATOMY ON UNENBALMED CADAVERS.
• Barcelona, 18th and 19th May 2018: XIIth ADVANCED LAPAROSCOPIC WORKSHOP ON FEMALE PELVIC SURGICAL ANATOMY ON UNENBALMED CADAVERS.
• Barcelona, 29th and 30th May 2019: XIIIth ADVANCED LAPAROSCOPIC WORKSHOP ON FEMALE PELVIC SURGICAL ANATOMY ON UNENBALMED CADAVERS.