10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 10:50
Inguinal and Ventral Nerve Anatomy – Neurectomy
Todd Heniford (USA)
10:50 – 11:10
eTEP, MILOS and more
Gernot Köhler (Austria)
11:10 – 11:30
Open Sublay and component separation techniques
11:30 – 12:30
Lunch Break
12:30 — 17:00
Practical exercises on cadavers with table instruction by the experts
- 12:30 – 14:30 Lichtenstein and open inguinal neurectomy
- 14:00 – 15:30 TAPP and laparoscopic inguinal neurectomy
- 15:30 – 17:00 Open retromuscular dissection and TAR
- 17:00 – 17:30 Abdominal wall closure with small bites technique
STD
Thursday, 24th October 2024
8:00 — 08:30
Registration
8:45 – 9:45
Session 1 — Swiss Young Surgeons Session
Johanna Willburger
Hellen Birsner
Pitfalls in Lichtenstein and Shouldice
Rebecca Kraus (Switzerland)
Teaching in TAPP / TEP
David Lourie (USA)
Teaching open sublay and TAR
Sean Orenstein (USA)
9:45 – 10:45
Session 2 — Hernia surgery of the future
Andrea Pakula
Guillaume Passot
Role of robots in future hernia surgery
Ihsan Ihnan (Switzerland)
Which techniques are here to stay, which will die
Maarten Simons (Netherlands)
Outpatient hernia surgery in private practice: present & future
Martin Wiese (Germany)
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15
Session 3 — Important UpDates
Best three hernia papers in 2024: my choice
Nadia Henriksen (Denmark)
Real World Data from registries
Ferdinand Köckerling (Germany)
Guidelines in a nutshell
Cesare Stabilini (Italy)
12:15 – 12:45
Lunch Break
12:45 – 13:30
Get ready for the Hernia transformation
Lunch Symposium — BD
13:30 – 14:30
Session 4 — Grand Round
Hernia prevention and prehabilitation
Henry Hoffmann
Philipp Kirchhoff
Rebecca Kraus, Marteen Simons, Bernhard Dauser (Podium)
Input Talk: Reality check on hernia prevention and perioperative optimizing strategies
Rene Fortelny (Austria)
14:30 – 15:00
Industry Symposium — TelaBio
PSH: Is it time to leave Sugarbaker & Synthetics and move to (modified) Pauli & Ovitex?
Bob Bloemendaal (Netherlands)
Next level RTM TAPP —can we do better?
Thomas Mones (Germany)
15:30– 16:30
Session 5 — UpDate on MIS Ventral Hernia Repair
I still love my lap IPOM
Walter Brunner (Switzerland)
eTEP – nothing else
Hector Valenzuela (Mexico)
MILOS: Experiment or established?
Ralf Wilke (Germany)
16:30 – 17:30
Session 6 — When the shit hits the fan
Marc Olivier Sauvaign
Hector Valenzuela
Case 1 — Martin Wiese (Germany)
Case 2 — Björn Mück (Germany)
Case 3 — Bernhard Dauser (Austria)
17:30 – 18:00
Keynote lecture: Bullshit resistance – a guide to critical thinking
Friday, 25th October 2024
8:00 — 08.30
Registration
8:30 – 10:00
Deferred Live Surgery – Ventral hernia repair
Robotic TAR
Jonathan Douissard (Switzerland)
Subcostal and infraxyphoidal hernia
David Lourie (USA)
Parastomal hernia repair
Marc Olivier Sauvaign (Switzerland)
12:00 – 12:30
Lunch Break
12:30 – 13:00
Lunch Symposium — Medtronic
Results of more than 2000 implanted ProGrip meshes
Dieter Birk (Germany)
13:00 – 14:00
Session 7 — Clinical decision making
Ferdinand Köckerling
Ralf Wilke
Small asymptomatic contralateral inguinal hernia: operate or leave it alone?
Perparim Limani (Switzerland)
Diastasis recti: which technique?
Guillaume Passot (France)
Diagnostic pathway on chronic postoperative inguinal pain (CPIP)
Sean Orenstein (USA)
14:00 – 14:30
Best Video Award
Moderation & Jury:
Jonathan Douissard
Björn Mück
Announcement and presentation of the best videos
1st place 1000 CHF
2nd place 750 CHF
3rd place 500 CHF
14:30 – 15:00
Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:00
Championsleague
Case 1 – Henry Hoffmann (Switzerland)
Case 2 – Fiorenzo Angehrn (Switzerland)
Case 3 – Dietmar Eucker (Switzerland)
Teams
Switzerland: Walter Brunner, Jan Kukleta
Europe: Marteen Simons, Bernhard Dauser
America: Hector Valenzuela, Sean Orenstein
16:00 – 17:00
Session 8 – The Special Hernia Case
Sean Orenstein
Cesare Stabilini
Operating on a colleague
Uli Dietz (Switzerland)
Dealing with multiple recurrences
Mette Willaume (Denmark)
The untreatable hernia
Andrea Pakula (USA)
17:00
Announcement Winner «Industry Rally» and Farewell
SAHC
The Swiss Hernia Days are the official annual congress of the Swiss Association for Hernia Surgery (SAHC)
Friday, 21 September 2018
Dr. Vedra Augenstein, MD
Atrium Health General & Complex Abdominal Surgery, Charlotte (USA)
Executive Board Member American Hernia Society (AHS)
Dr. med. Knut Borch
Alfred surgery
An industry-independent educational plattform for surgery
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, University Hospital of North Norway
Secretary of the Advisory Committee for Education (European Hernia Society)
PD Dr. med. Walter Brunner
Senior physician, Department of Surgery, Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons FRCS
Honorary Fellow of the European Board of Surgeons FEBS (Minimal Invasive Surgery; Abdominal Wall Surgery)
Executive Board Member SAHC
