This course will focus on one the greatest challenges in complex pelvic surgery with an emphasis on strategies to avoid complications, recognizing complications when they occur, and repair techniques and including appropriate intra-operative consultation. This course will focus on four types of the most challenging complications that pelvic surgeons face including: Ureteral & Urologic injuries, Bowel injuries, Vascular complications, and prevention and management of thermal injuries.

This course will focus not just on the understanding of how to prevent and why a complication may occur, but also strategies to improve recognition, appropriate intra-operative consultation, repair, as well as follow-up management.

Learning Objectives: At the completion of this course, the attendees should be able to: 1) Understand diagnostic test to identify ureteral and urologic injuries and develop strategies for appropriate consultation and repair; 2) Recognize Bowel injuries and techniques for appropriate repair; and 3) Understand risk factors for vascular and thermal injuries and deploy strategies to mitigate these risk utilizing surgical dissection techniques.

Course Outline

8:00 AM Welcome, Introduction and Course Overview
J.L. Hudgens
 

8:05 AM Going With the Flow: Prevention, Recognition, and Repair Strategies for Ureteral and Urologic Injuries
J.L. Hudgens

8:30 AM Seeing Red: Strategies for the Prevention and Repair of Vascular Injuries
S. Nahas

8:55 AM Don’t Be Shocked: Understanding Electro-Surgical Dissection Techniques to Mitigate Thermal Injuries
M. Wasson

9:20 AM Bossing the Bowel: Bowel Injury Prevention, Recognition, and Repair

A. Ecker

9:45 AM Discussion Questions & Answers
 

10:00 AM Adjourn