2025 DISSECTION PRE-COURSE
The skull base dissection course is designed for residents, fellows, and practicing skull base surgeons within the surgical specialties comprising the NASBS. Participants will have access to high-quality cadaveric specimens for hands-on dissection utilizing state-of-the-art equipment and instrumentation. Proctoring will be provided by experts in skull base surgery who will demonstrate a wide variety of open and endoscopic skull base approaches with individual expert faculty supervision and mentorship. All participants will also receive training in the endoscopic carotid artery injury cadaveric simulation.
New this year, the course will be a half-day didactic and hands-on session on microvascular and nerve anastomosis. This session will feature expert didactic and hands-on teaching on both topics. Participants will be able to learn about the indications for both microvascular anastomosis and nerve graft anastomosis. They will then be able to practice hands-on microvascular and neural anastomosis in the lab, with expert faculty guidance. This addition to the course will provide a truly comprehensive skull base training experience.ย
PROGRAM
Subject to Change
Please note the Pre-Meeting Hands-On Course takes place at the LSU Health Lab-New Orleans; transportation will be provided to and from the headquarter hotel
DAY 1
7:30 AM | Registration/Breakfast |
7:45 AM | Introduction |
8:00 AM | Endonasal Skull Base Anatomy and Flap Modifications |
8:20 AM | Step by Step Sellar Exposures |
8:40 AM | Step by Step Cribriform with Middle Turbinate Preservation |
9:00 AM | Step by Step Tubercular/Planar |
9:20 AM | Step by Step Transclival/Transodontoid |
9:30 AM | Break |
9:45 AM | Lab |
Model anastomosis Vascular anastomosis Nerve anastomosis | |
12:00 PM | Lunch / Case Discussions |
1:00 PM | PPF/ITF 3D Anatomy |
1:20 PM | Step by Step PPF/ITF with Middle Fossa/Mekels/Cavernous |
1:30 PM | Managing Endonasal Skull Base Complications |
1:45 PM | Endoscopic vs Supraorbital โ When to do Which? |
2:05 PM | Break |
2:15 PM | Lab |
Endoscopic Approach to PPF/ITF with Middle Fossa/Mekels/Cavernous Sinuses Supraorbital approach to anterior skull base ย | |
5:00 PM | Q&A |
DAY 2
7:30 AM | Introduction/Breakfast |
7:45 AM | Temporal and Posterior Fossa 3D Anatomy |
8:15 AM | Anterior Petrosectomy/Middle fossa Approaches Step by Step / Indications |
8:35 AM | Posterior Petrosectomy/Retrosig Approach Step by Step / Indications |
8:55 AM | Translabyrinthine/Transcochlear/Endoscopic Approach CPA-Step by Step / Indications |
9:15 AM | Break |
9:30 AM | Lab |
Anterior Petrosectomy Posterior Petrosectomy Translabyrinthine Approach ย | |
12:00 PM | Lunch / Case Discussion |
1:00 PM | Microvascular Anastomosis Neurosurgery Indications |
1:20 PM | Microvascular Anastomosis Head and Neck Surgery Indications |
1:40 PM | Step by Step Intracranial Bypass Anastomosis |
2:00 PM | Step by Step facial nerve anastomosis/graft |
2:15 PM | Lab |
Model anastomosis Vascular anastomosis Nerve anastomosis | |
5:00 PM | Q&A |