Endorsed by EHS
The Swiss Hernia Days are endorsed by the European Hernia Society, a non-profit making international scientific forum that focuses on ABDOMINAL WALL SURGERY.
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SWISS HERNIA DAYS
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4053 Basel / Switzerland
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Platinum Sponsor 2023
Silver Sponsor 2023
Contributors 2023
8:30 – 08:45
Registration
8:45
Welcome and Introduction
Philipp Kirchhoff and Henry Hoffmann
9:00
Anatomy of the groin
Ulrich Dietz (CH)
9:20
The perfect Lichtenstein technique
David Chen (USA)
9:40
Shouldice, TIPP and more
Andreas Koch (GER)
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:50
MILOS and more in ventral hernias
Bernhard Dauser (AUT)
11:10
Component separation techniques
Dietmar Eucker (CH)
11:30 – 12:30
Lunch Break
12:30 — 17:00
Practical exercises on cadavers with table instruction by the experts
- Lichtenstein
- Shouldice
- TAPP
- MILOS
- Open Sublay
- Open TAR / Fasciotens
STD
Endorsement
The Swiss Hernia Days are endorsed by the Swiss Society of Surgery (SGC) and the European Hernia Society (EHS)
- 16 CME credits for participation on Swiss Hernia Days 2023
- 6 CME credits for Anatomical Cadaver Workshop
Thursday, 19th October 2023
8:00 — 08:30
Registration
8:45 – 9:45
Session 1 — UpDate Inguinal Hernia
Jan Kukleta
Eric Pauli
Critical view of myopectineal orifice
Ulrich Dietz (CH)
How to deal with cord lipomas
Rebecca Kraus (CH)
Inguinal pathologies in female patients
Mette Willaume (DEN)
9:45 – 10:45
Session 2 — Chronic pain in hernia surgery
David Chen
Sonia Ribas
Groin pain as the chief complaint
Andreas Koch (GER)
Chronic postoperative inguinal pain (CPIP)
Debora Nowakowski (CH)
Anterior cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome (ACNES)
Michael Scott (UK)
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15
Session 3 — “When the shit hits the fan”
Marc-Olivier Sauvain
Conrad Ballecer
When the mesh needs to get out
Bernhard Dauser (AUT)
Management of bowel lesions and incarcerations
Neil Smart (UK)
The impossible hernia repair
Ramana Balasubramanian (IND)
12:15 – 12:45
Lunch Break
12:45 – 13:30
Lunch Symposium (BD Bard)
Henry Hoffmann
Clinical Evidence and broader Indications for Phasix-Mesh
Bernhard Dauser (AUT)
Phasix-Mesh in Diastasis Recti repair: right patient, right outcome!
Michael Scott (UK)
13:30 – 14:00
Best Video Award
Jury: Bernhard Dauser, Eric Pauli
Top three videos presented by the creator
14:00 – 15:00
Session 4 — Grand Round “Outpatient Hernia Surgery”
Henry Hoffmann
Philipp Kirchhoff
Input talk: Status of outpatient surgery in Switzerland
Felix Grieder (CH)
On the stage: Andreas Koch, David Chen, Felix Grieder, Walter Brunner, Dirk Weyhe
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
SAHC Annual Meeting (Members only)
15:30– 16:30
Session 5 — Swiss Young Surgeons Association
Stephanie Taha-Mehlitz
Hellen Birsner
My resident and I
Conrad Ballecer (USA)
My consultant and I
Maaike Vierstraete (BEL)
Digital platforms in Hernia education
Knut Borch (NOR)
Podium Discussion
Rebecca Kraus, Conrad Ballecer, Maaike Vierstraete, Knut Borch, Jonathan Douissard, Ulrich Dietz
16:30 – 17:30
Session 6 — UpDate on Diastasis recti
Jan Kukleta
Dirk Weyhe
Patient view (CH)
Hernia surgeons view
Victor Radu (ROM)
Plastic surgeons view
Rik Osinga (CH)
17:30 – 18:00
Keynote lecture
“On the hunt for the building blocks of life in space”
Prof. Dr. Susanne Wampfler
19:00
Networking Event
Friday, 20th October 2023
8:00 — 08.30
Registration
8:30 – 10:00
Deferred Live Surgery – Part 1
Philipp Kirchhoff, Walter Brunner,
Andreas Koch, Jan Kukleta, Mette Willaume
Diastasis recti with Phasix Mesh – Michael Scott (UK)
Flank hernia – Conrad Ballecer (USA)
Neurectomy – David Chen (USA)
12:00 – 12:30
Lunch Break
12:30 – 13:15
Lunch Symposium (Laubscher)
Philipp Kirchhoff
13:15 – 14:15
Session 7 — Robotics, VR and more
Ulrich Dietz
Bernhard Dauser
Does the robot make me a better surgeon
David Chen (USA)
Critical view on robotics; economy, OR time and learning curve
Jonathan Douissard (CH)
The operation room of the future
Dirk Weyhe (GER)
14:15 – 14:45
Coffee Break
