This course allows for 16 hands-on participants. If the course gets full, attendees can still attend for observation.
Course Agenda:
2023 ACA Sinus Surgery Dissection Course
American Osteopathic College of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
Wednesday, APRIL, 26, 2023
7:30 Registration
8:00 Welcome and Introduction
8:10 – 9:30 Classroom
8:10 Radiographic Surgical Anatomy
8:20 Office-based Rhinology - balloons, cryoablation, implants, etc
8:40 SPA Ligation & Nasoseptal flap
8:50 Maxillary Antrostomy & Total Ethmoidectomy
9:05 Sphenoidotomy & Frontal Sinusotomy
9:20 CSF Leak Repair & Extended Maxillary Approaches
9:30 – 11:55 Lab Dissection
Prosection: Balloon sinuplasty, cryoablation, etc
Prosection: SPA ligation, nasoseptal flap, etc
Prosection: Maxillary antrostomy, ethmoidectomy, sphenoidotomy, and
frontal sinusotomy
11:55 Photo
12:00 pm Lunch Discussion (Challenging Cases in Rhinology)
12:30 - 4:20 Lab Dissection
Prosection: CSF repair, pituitary approach
Prosection: Mega antrostomy/medial maxillectomy
Prosection: Endoscopic DCR
Prosection: Orbit decompression
4:20 Debrief, Course Summary, and Evaluation
4:30 Adjourn