PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
| Day 1, Monday, November 30 | ||
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| 8:30 | Welcome address | A. Prasas, President of Hellenic Neurosurgical Society |
| 8:45 | Lecture: objective of the workshop | A. Andreou |
| 9:00 | Lecture: basic instruments and thread handling in microvascular surgery | G. Skandalakis |
| 9:20 | Video demonstration: instructions of suturing techniques (glove, silicon tubes) | |
| 9:45 | Hands-on: interrupted/running sutures (glove) | |
| 10:30 | Refreshment break | |
| 11:00 | Hands-on: interrupted sutures (silicone tubes) | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Video demonstration: artery, vein, nerve (dissection in the chicken leg) | |
| 14:15 | Hands-on: vessel/nerve dissection (chicken leg) | |
| 16:00 | Adjourn | |
| Day 2, Tuesday, December 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:15 | Lecture: nerve coaptation, suturing techniques | A. Vlastou |
| 8:30 | Hands-on: nerve coaptation (chicken) | |
| 9:30 | Refreshment break | |
| 9:45 | Video demonstration/Hands-on: end-to-end anastomosis (chicken artery) | |
| 11:15 | Video demonstration/Hands-on: end-to-side anastomosis (chicken vein to artery) | |
| 13:15 | Luncheon Seminar: Endovascular treatment of cerebrovascular occlusive disease. | N. Velinov |
| 14:00 | Video demonstration/Hands-on: side-to-side anastomosis (vein-to-artery) | |
| 16:00 | Adjourn | |
| 19:30 | “Greek tavern night” | |
| Day 3, Wednesday, December 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | Lecture: 50 years of EC-IC bypass surgery: History, current state-of-the-art and outlook | P. Dodier |
| 8:50 | Hands-on: femoral vessels/nerve dissection | |
| 10:30 | Refreshment break | |
| 10:50 | Hands-on: end-to-end anastomosis (carotid) | |
| 12:50 | Lunch | |
| 13:40 | Hands-on: side-to-side anastomosis on femoral vessels (vein to artery) | |
| 16:00 | Adjourn | |
| Day 4, Thursday, December 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | Lecture: methods for assessing bypass patency | V. Papic |
| 8:30 | Hands-on: end-to-end anastomosis (rat) | |
| 10:30 | Refreshment break | |
| 10:45 | Hands-on: dissection of rat aorta-vena-cava | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Hands-on: aorta-vena cava (rat), side-to-side anastomosis | |
| 16:30 | Adjourn | |
| 20:00 | Gala dinner | |
| Day 5, Friday, December 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | Lecture: Indications and Techniques for ACoA – aneurysms | G. Bavinzski |
| 8:30 | Hands-on: dissection of the external jugular vein in the rat | |
| 10:30 | Refreshment break | |
| 11:00 | Hands-on: ext. jugular v.-to-carotid a. anastomosis (end-to-side, rat) | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Dissection and coaptation of the Rat sciatic nerve | P. Georgis |
| 13:45 | Hands-on: end-to-end anastomosis femoral artery/vein (rat) | |
| 16:00 | Certificate Awarding Ceremony | |