3 day advanced neurology course Level 2

Advanced Spine module II

About this course

The Advanced Neurosurgery Surgery Level II is designed for surgeons that are skilled at neurosurgery including laminectomies and ventral slot decompression and wish to expand their surgical repertoire to more technical procedures, craniotomy, and spinal stabilizations.

The skills taught will be SOP instrumentation, dorsal cervical laminectomy, lumbar corpectomy, LS stabilization, LS foraminotomy, cervical stabilization, AA stabilization, lumbar and thoracic stabilization with SOP and pedicle screws demonstration, lumbosacral stabilization, craniotomy with introduction to ventriculoperitoneal shunting. There will be five sessions beginning with theory and detailed step by step description of the procedures followed by a demonstration of the procedure by an instructor on a cadaver. The attendees will then perform the procedures on cadavers and can repeat the procedures as needed.

Instrumentation will include standard surgical instrumentation, specialized spinal instrumentation, high speed burr, drills, and SOP instrumentation and screws.

There will be an introduction to pedicle screw systems.

Overview Agenda

• Dorsal cervical Laminectomy
• Lumbar Corpectomy
• LS Stabilization
• LS Foraminotomy
• Cervical stabilization
• AA stabilization
• Thoracic SOP Stabilization
• Craniotomies
• invetra™ pedicle screw stabilisation
• Ventriculoperitoneal Shunts (Demo only)

The advanced course II should be attended by surgeons who currently undertake spine surgery but wish to expand their surgical repertoire to more technical procedures and spine stabilization.

Course director:  Karl H. Kraus DVM, MS (surg) DACVS

Faculty programme:
Peter Early DVM, DACVIM  Robert L Bergman DVM, DACVIM Sean Sanders DVM, PhD, ACVIM