The 4th Chest Wall Injury Course Gottingen features a highly collaborative and cutting-edge three-day exploration of current operative, and non-operative, approaches to chest wall trauma.

This course will include expert faculty from Europe and the United States. Participants will have opportunities for didactic learning and hands-on cadaveric lab skills training stations for a comprehensive experience.

The aims of this course are to optimize patient selection, understand indications/contraindications, recognize optimal incision locations, and discuss current literature to identify the most updated research. The technical skills learned will include chest wall injury surgical procedures, as well as emergency procedures - including lateral thoracotomy, clamshell thoracotomy, aorta clamping, hilus clamping, atypical lung resection, suture of the pericard with pericard patch.

This course will include a focus on post-traumatic chest wall reconstruction and complication management. Participants will receive long-term mentorship and follow-up to help reinforce concepts learned.

Participants will be introduced to the cutting-edge technology and products available for chest wall injury repair and surgical stabilization of rib fractures.

Course Directors

Christopher Spering, MD, PhD, FEBS
Thomas W. White, MD, FACS, CNSC

 

Available discounts:

• CWIS members receive a discounted registration fee - so join today!
• Discounts for hotel accommodations will be available at the FREIgeist Göttingen Nordstadt for participants. Details will be provided upon registration confirmation.

 

Cancellation policy:

Cancellations made before 30 September will receive a 100% refund. Cancellations made after that time will be non-refundable, unless under extenuating circumstances approved on an individual basis.

 

Agenda:

(Detailed agenda to be posted soon)

Friday: 18:00 - 20:30 (CET) meeting | Pre-course included in overall registration fee

Saturday: 08:00 - 17:00 (CET) meeting

Sunday: 08:00 - 12:00 (CET) meeting