Surgery
Soft Tissue Surgery I
waiting list open
Vienna / Austria
29.09.2025
5.11.2025 – 8.11.2025
EURO 3.390.-*
EURO 3.290.-*(early registration deadline: 01.06.2025)
* eLibrary access is included in the course fee
Total hours: 40
ATF hours (Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland): TBA
ECTS credits (Master & Certificate): 5
Course Overview
This course focuses on the basic principles of surgery, tissue handling, knotting techniques and general abdominal and gastro-intestinal surgery.
Learning Outcomes: At the end of the course, participants 1) shall be able to apply atraumatic surgery principles on all occasions, 2) master current abdominal surgeries principles and techniques, 3) have changed paradigm, not trying anymore to know “how” but “why”.
Course program (subject to change)
Monday, 29/09/2025 – Online Course introduction/Explanation
8 hours of Recorded Webinars on Surgical Methods from Soft Tissue Surgery I panel course masters
• Surgical site infections Allerton / Dupré
• Instrument and tissue handling techniques Findji
• Patient, surgeon, OP room preparation Findji
• Disinfection / Sterilisation methods Merca
• Hemostasis, hemostatic devices Findji
• Suture material and suture techniques Findji
• Pain management in abdominal surgery Rocchi / Eberspächer-Schweda
• Nutritional support Handl
Wednesday, 5/11/2025 – Lectures and Dry Lab
09:00 – 10:00 Abdominal wall anatomy, approaches, closure Dupré
10:00 – 10:30 Abdominal biopsies Gradner
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15 Basic knowledge in gastrointestinal surgery: anatomy, surgery Dupré
12.15 – 13.00 Gastric dilatation volvulus Gradner
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:45 Group work webinars Dupré
14:45 – 15:15 Splenectomy and fast splenectomy Gradner
15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:30 Dry labs on suture and ligature techniques Dupré / Gradner / Noreikaite
17:30 – 19:00 Ice breaker
Thursday, 6/11/2025 – Practical excercises
09:00 – 10:30 Laparotomy / Abdominal exploration
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Abdominal biopsies, splenectomy
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:30 Enterotomies, gastropexies
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Resection anastomosis
Friday, 7/11/2025 - Lectures and wrap-up session
09:15 – 10:30 Abdominal congenital and traumatic hernias Merca
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15 Particularities of large intestines and large intestines surgical diseases Merca
12:15 – 13:00 How to place feeding tubes Dupré
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 The septic peritonitis Merca
15:00 – 15:30 Introduction to minimally-invasive surgery Dupré
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:45 Wrap-up
19:00 Social Dinner
Saturday, 8/11/2025 – Practical exercises
09:00 – 10:30 Feeding tubes placement / Abdominal exploration
Advanced dissections (pancreas, adrenals, aorta…)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Small and large intestines (1)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Small and large intestines (2) / Serosal patch
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 Jejunal graft and more…
17:00 – … Debriefing and farewell