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The ESSKA Advanced Knee Arthroscopy Course is designed to provide certified Orthopaedic Surgeons thorough didactic and practical training in challenging disorders of the knee from renowned ESSKA Faculty using state of the art surgical facilities.

Programme

Thursday, 17 October

07:45 08:00 Registration
08:00 08:10 Welcome and Introduction
08:10 08:20 How to access to meniscus (arthroscopic portals)
08:20 08:30 How to optimize the meniscus healing 
08:30 08:40 How to do a non-traumatic meniscectomy
08:40 08:50 Questions to the “teachers”
08:50 09:00 Coffee break
09:00 11:30 First Lab Session: The portals and approaches

  • - Portals
  • - Needling
  • - Postero-medial
  • - Postero-lateral

11:30 12:15 Lunch
12:15 12:35 Question to “teachers” about surgical indications (morning session)
12:35 12:45 How to suture a ramp lesion? (video)
12:45 12:55 How to suture a root tear
12:55 15:30 Second Lab. Session:

  • A: Meniscectomy Partial to Total
  • B: Meniscus sutures
    • - All-inside
    • - Outside-in

15:30 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 16:05 Question to “teachers” about surgical indications
 

Friday, 18 October​

08:00 08:10 Is meniscal allograft or substitute an option?
08:10 10:40 Third Lab. Session:

  • A: Root tears
  •            - Different techniques and fixation
  •            - Bone or soft fixation and sutures
  • B: Meniscal graft

10:40 10:55 Coffee break
10:55 11:15 Question to “teachers” about surgical indications
11:15 11:30 Closure and Meeting evaluation
11:30 12:15 Lunch

 

ALL about Meniscus 2019

The lectures will be directly correlated to what the attendees will perform in the laboratory. 
The attendee is expected to learn all about the meniscus starting from the very simple to the very complex. 

The basics of arthroscopic portals will be revisited in light of the multiportal access to the knee joint. Optimization of meniscus healing will be discussed in order to learn ways to promote healing. Partial meniscectomy, one of the most frequently performed procedures in orthopaedic surgery, will be refreshed.

There will be lectures which explain meniscus suturing including all inside, outside-in and inside-out, followed by hand-on practice in the laboratory. How to suture a ramp lesion and how to suture a root tear will also be discussed followed by hands-on repetition on cadavers. Finally, meniscal allografts or substitutes will be discussed as an option in salvage cases.
 

Prof. Romain Seil

Prof. Romain Seil
Course Co-Chairman
Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg Clinique d’ Eich
Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

 

Prof. Roland Becker

Prof. Roland Becker
Course Co-Chairman
Centre of Joint Replacement University Hospital
Brandenburg, Germany

 

Prof. Mustafa Karahan

Prof. Mustafa KARAHAN
Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University
Department of Orthopaedics
Istanbul, Turkey

 

Prof. Jón Karlsson

Prof. Jón Karlsson
Sahlgrenska University,
Department of Orthopaedics, Hospital,
Göteborg, Sweden

 

Prof. Joan C. Monllau

Prof. Joan C. Monllau
Hospital del Mar and Hospital Universitari Dexeus
Barcelona, Spain
 

 

Dr. Matthieu Ollivier

Dr Matthieu Ollivier
Institute for Movement and Locomotion
Marseille, France

 

Pre-course recommended reading and visual materials
Pre-course recommended reading and visual materials: eposter
Pre-course Assessment Questionnaire
Course Lectures
Post-course Assessment Questionnaire
Evaluation & Certificate

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