Winter academy
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information for next course:
Start: March 26th, 2023
End: March 31th, 2023
Courses: Phaco Beginner, Phaco Advanced & Vitrectomy
Price: € 3.360,00 (incl. 20% tax)
Location: Schruns - Vorarlberg , Austria
Course Venue: Alpenhotel Montafon, Silvrettastrasse 175, 6780 Schruns, Österreich
Description
Course language: english
During this six-day intensive training course you will be taught the basics of Phacoemulsification and p.p. Vitrectomy in Schruns (Austria).
In our 29 years of experience we constantly improved the program and we have a dedicated team to share their knowledge, helping the delegates to learn and master the surgical skills necessary to perform their surgery safely on patients.
The course puts focus on a practical hands-on surgery training in the wetlabs, where state of the art machines, hand instruments and disposables are provided and accepted as the best way for surgeons to familiarize themselves with the equipment.
Please follow THIS LINK for finding an accommodation.
Email for SPECIAL DISCOUNT with subject “Winteracademy”: urlaub@alpenhotel-montafon.at
Main topics covered
Phaco Basic
- Lecture on Wound Construction
- Capsulorhexis
- Hydrodissection
- Nuclear Disassembly Techniques and strategies
- Irrigation/Aspiration
- Lens Implantation
- Sealing the Wound
- Anterior vitrectomy
- Identifying complex cases and planning strategies
- Complications and their avoidance
- Surgical anatomy of the eye
- Intraocular pharmacology
- The Psychology of learning surgery
- The Microscope
- The Physics of Phaco
Phaco Advanced
- Basic steps – pearls and pitfalls
- The physics of phaco/different pumps
- Nuclear disassembly techniques and strategies
- Understanding subtypes – key to removing cataracts
- Identifying complex cases and planning strategies
- Complications
- Anterior vitrectomy
- IOL exchange
- Considerations in long and short eyes
- Subluxated crystalline and intraocular lenses
- Postoperative cataract surgery complications
Vitrectomy
- How the wetlab works
- Machine technology
- Vitrectomy – indications
- Vitrectomy – basic principles
- Micro Incision Vitrectomy Surgery (MIVS)
- Vitrectomy – special challenges
- Vitrectomy surface diseases
- Retinal detachment
- Vitrectomy in children
- Management of complications
- Indications and techniques for combined surgery
- Vitreoretinal surgery in traumatized eyes
- Vitrectomy – controversial & discussion
Faculty
PHACO | VITRECTOMY |
Beatrix Neimair-Ammerer, | Eva Smretschnig ( eingeladen ) |
Dusan Pusnik, | Katharina Krepler, |
Florian Sutter, | Ulrike Stolba |
Miguel Torres, | |
Nikola Vandmeulenbroecke, | |
Norbert Körber, | |
Paulina Camacho Torres | |
Petra Schollmayer, | |
Phil Harvey, | |
Suhas Haldipurkar, |