The North American Skull Base Society (NASBS) will hold its annual Skull Base Surgery Summer Course for Senior Neurosurgery Residents and Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Fellows August 15-18, 2024 at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Registration for the 2024 NASBS Skull Base Surgery Workshop
will open in April 2024!
VIEW THE 2024 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE BELOW
Thursday, August 15, 2024
6:00PM – 7:30 PM Welcome Reception
Friday, August 16, 2024
6:30 AM – 7:00 AM Breakfast
7:00 AM – 7:15 AM Shuttle from hotel to lab
7:30 AM – 7:35 AM Introductions & Welcomes
7:35 AM – 8:05 AM 3D Anatomy – Endonasal Sellar, Suprasellar Anatomy, and Transtubercular and Cavernous Sinus exposure
8:05 AM – 8:25 AM Endoscopic Transtubercular Approach
8:25 AM – 8:50 AM Endoscopic Cavernous Sinus Approaches
8:50 AM – 9:00 AM Carotid Injury Model
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM Break
9:15 AM – 11:45 AM Lab: Endoscopic Endonasal Approach to the Sella & Suprasellar Space, Transtubercular Approach, Exposure of the cavernous sinus & Carotid Injury Model
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch with complication session and how to fix a carotid blowout
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM 3D Anatomy – Clival, Petrous Apex and C1-C2 Endoscopic Anatomy
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM Endoscopic Transclival Approach
1:45 PM – 2:10 PM Open and Endoscopic Infratemporal and Pterygopalatine Fossa Approaches; Contralateral Transmaxillary Approach/Endoscopic Denker’s Approach
2:10 PM – 2:15 PM Break
2:15 PM – 5:00 PM Lab: Endoscopic Approach to the Clivus, Petrous Apex, ITF
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM Shuttle from lab to hotel
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM Faculty and Attendee Dinner
Saturday, August 17, 2024
7:00 AM – 7:30 AM Breakfast
7:30 AM – 7:45 AM Shuttle from hotel to lab
8:00 AM– 8:05 AM Welcome & Announcements
8:05 AM – 8:35 AM 3D Anatomy – Around the Orbit – Supraorbital, Lateral orbitotomy, Medial Canthal Approaches
8:35 AM – 8:55 AM Supraorbital Craniotomy – Indications and Technique
8:55 AM – 9:15 AM Lateral Orbitotomy Approach – Indications and Technique
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM Mini Pterional, Lateral Supraorbital
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM Break
9:45 AM – 12:00 PM Lab: Supraorbital craniotomy, Lateral Orbitotomy approach, Medial Canthal, Mini-pterional
12:00 PM– 1:00 PM Lunch with cases – Skull Base Dilemmas: What is the best approach?
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM 3D Anatomy – Vestibular Schwannoma Translabyrinthine, Retrosigmoid, and Middle Fossa Approaches to the IAC/CP angle
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM Translabyrinthine Approach to the CPA – Indications and Technique
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM Retrosigmoid Approach to the CPA – Indications and Technique
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM Middle Fossa Approaches
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM Break
2:30 PM – 5:00 PM Lab: Translabyrinthine, Retrosigmoid, and Middle Fossa Approaches to Vestibular Schwannomas
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM Shuttle from lab to hotel
Sunday, August 18, 2024
7:00 AM – 7:30 AM Breakfast
7:30 AM – 7:45 AM Shuttle from hotel to lab
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM Welcome & Announcements
8:15 AM – 8:35 AM Neck Dissection and Approach to Infratemporal Fossa – Indications and Techniques
8:35 AM – 8:55 AM Far Lateral Approach to the Craniocervical Junction – Indications and Approach
8:55 AM– 9:00 AM Break
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Lab: Neck Dissection to Infratemporal Fossa and Far Lateral Craniotomy
12:00 PM Lunch & Shuttle to airport from lab
For more information or if you have any questions, please contact NASBS Course Coordinator, Meghan Nabors at meghan@nasbs.org