The EHS invite you the 2-day Advanced MIS Cadaveric Hiatal Hernia Course in Braga, Portugal, 18-19 March 2025.
We are delighted to invite you to this Advanced EHS Hiatal Hernia Course, a comprehensive programme designed to deepen your understanding and refine your surgical skills in the treatment of hiatal hernias.
This course combines essential theoretical knowledge with advanced hands-on cadaveric practice, ensuring participants gain both insight and practical experience under expert guidance. The course will cover…
- Applied Anatomy: Understanding anatomical relationships in clinical surgery.
- Clinical Evaluation: From patient symptoms to proper investigation, covering both basic and atypical presentations of reflux and hiatal hernia.
- Physiology and Motility: Highlighting the role of physiological and motility assessments in practice, including the peculiarities of gastro-oesophageal reflux.
- Surgical Indications and Techniques: Learn the classification of hiatal hernias, surgical indications, and approaches, along with a focus on challenging reoperations.
- Case-Based Learning: Gain valuable insights through demonstrational videos of surgical techniques and outcomes.
The hands-on training will offer participants the opportunity to practise and perfect advanced techniques on cadaveric specimens, including:
- Strategic trocar placement
- Isolation of muscular crura and distal oesophagus
- Release of short gastric vessels
- Closing the hiatus
- Nissen fundoplication
- Revisional surgery: Removal of fundoplication and oesophagomyotomy
- Collis gastroplasty
- Toupet fundoplication
- Crural reinforcement using falciform ligament
- Mesh reinforcement techniques
This structured, high-level training will equip participants with the confidence and expertise to tackle both primary and revisional hiatal hernia surgeries.
We look forward to welcoming you to an engaging and interactive learning experience that blends theoretical knowledge with invaluable hands-on practice.
Join us and advance your surgical skills to the next level!
Location
Minho University
R. da Universidade, 4710-057 Braga,
Portugal
Registration
The registration is open! Register here.
Seats are limited, and spots will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Don’t miss this opportunity to reserve your spot on this educational course.
Important: ONLY for EHS Members
Programme
1-day lab & 1 day classroom/challenge
*The programme is subject to change.
18 March 2025 (In lab)
08.00-08:15 Welcome Knut Borch & Fernando Ferreira
08.15-08.30 Coffee and change into scrubs
08.30-09.30 Lichtenstein (Skills lab) All Faculty (step-by-step introduced by Maarten Simons )
09.30-10.00Shouldice (Skills lab) All Faculty (step-by-step introduced by Ralph Lorenz )
10.30-11.45 Open Stoppa with small bites closure (Skills lab) All Faculty (step-by-step introduced by Eva Barbosa)
11.45-12.30 Lunch
12.30-14.00 PUMP epigastric (Skills lab) All Faculty (step-by-step introduced by Knut Borch)
14.00-15.30 TAPP (inguinal and Umbilical) (skills lab) (step-by-step introduced by Fernando Ferreira)
15.30-15.45 Coffee break
15.45-17.00 Rives Stoppa Procedure (Skills lab) All Faculty (step-by-step introduced by Fernando Ferreira)
17.00-18.00 Faculty give feedback to their participants All Faculty
18.00-18.15 Summary of the day Fernando Ferreira
19.30 Dinner
19 March 2025 (classroom)
08.30-09.00 Welcome & Questions Knut Borch & Fernando Ferreir
Inguinal hernia
09.00-09.15 Course challenge Knut Borch
9.15-09.45 Follow-up feedback individual 1:1 – participants might have questions for their mentor.
09.45-10.00 Lichtenstein repair Case discussion facilitated by Maarten Simons
10.00-10:15 Shouldice technique Case discussion facilitated by Ralph Lorenz
10.15-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-11.15 Course challenge – group work
11.15-11.45 What technique when for inguinal hernia? Mega
11.45-12.00 Posterior groin anatomy Knut Borch
13.45-14.00 TAPP Case discussion Fernando Ferreira
12.00-12.30 Lunch and complications videos Knut Borch
Ventral hernia
12.30-13.15 Course challenge – group work
13.15-13.30 The open Stoppa Procedure – Case discussion Eva Barbosa
13.30-13.45 Laparotomy and small bites closure – Case discussion Sonia Ribas
14.00-14.15 Coffee break
14.15-14.30 PUMP repair – Case discussion Knut Borch
14.30-14.45 Rives Stoppa – Case discussion Fernando Ferreira
14.45-15.15 Course challenge presentations
15.15-15.45 Post-test and goodbye Knut Borch & Fernando Ferreira
*Materials used in the skills lab or presented in introductions are sponsored by the industry partners supporting the EHS with unrestricted grants. For more information about our industry partners, please visit: https://europeanherniasociety.eu/sponsors/. The EHS Cadaver Course organisers emphasize that a variety of products, including those used in the courses, as well as other products, are suitable to achieve successful results in hernia repair.
Faculty
Fernando Ferreira, Portugal
Emanuel Guerreiro, Portugal
Tomás Paseka, Czech Republic
Darmarajah Veeramootoo, United Kingdom
TBA
Price and registration
Only for EHS members.
2-day course fee: 1275 EUR (excluding VAT)
The registration fee includes:
- Admission to the full course programme
- Coffee breaks and lunch
- Dinner on 18 March
Cancellation terms
Cancellation of registration must be notified in writing to CAP Partner at registration@cap-partner.eu. Cancellations postmarked before and on the date indicated below will be refunded 50% of the registration fee. After that date, registration fees are non-refundable.
Cancellation deadline: 9 February 2025.
If the course is cancelled due to other unforeseen events beyond the control of the organisers, the registration fee will be refunded after the deduction of expenses incurred by the course.
