General info
Orsi Academy offers an Advanced Course in Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy for urologists who already master the robotic surgery approach and want to improve their specialized skills with different urinary diversions.
This 2-day masterclass consists of:
- One day of hands-on training focusing on ileal conduit and different neobladders techniques on live animal tissue (porcine model)
- One day of hands-on training focusing on neobladder reconstruction on human cadaver tissue
Medical devices
- Intuitive da Vinci Si robotic platform (4 spots)
- Intuitive da Vinci Xi robotic platform (4 spots)
Members of the European Association of Urology (EAU) benefit a 25% discount on the course fee using the code EAUMEMBER2025. EAU member ID is required!
What you will learn
- Comprehensively cover basic robot techniques in RARC with different urinary diversions
- Different techniques in nerve sparing procedures
- Different techniques in conduit creation
- Various neobladder reconstructions
Prerequisites
- The trainee has performed at least 10-20 RARC cases with ileal conduit and/or neobladder.
- The trainee has experience with the intra or extra corporeal diversion technique.
- The trainee has experience with open and/or laparoscopic cystectomy & neobladder.
Faculty
Program
Welcome & introduction to the course
Theoretical session
Objectives within robot-assisted radical cystectomy and possible urinary diversion:
- Case selection
- Patient set-up and docking
- Port placement and instruments portfolio
- Step-by-step RARC in man
- Ileal conduit vs neobladder
Coffee break and change into scrubs
Hands-on session on live animal tissue - ileal conduit
- Training model: anesthetized porcine model
- Simplified Cystectomy
- Isolating the ureters
- Transmesocolic mobilization of ureter
- Ileal loop selection
- Step-by-step ileal conduit (ileo-ileal side-by-side anastomosis)
- Urostomy
- Posterior wallace type plate
- Anterior wall ileo-ureteral anastomosis and use of ICG vascularization
Lunch at the Orsi restaurant
Hands-on session on live animal tissue - different neobladders
- Training model: anesthetized porcine model
- Neobladder - Hautmann W
- Neobladder – Studer U
- Neobladder – pyramid pouch
- Neobladder – y-shape
- Neobladder – Padua
End of day 1
Faculty dinner for faculty and participants
Arrival at Orsi Academy
Theoretical session
Robot-assisted Radical Cystectomy - man vs female:
- Male cystectomy: NVBD and urethral preservation
- Female cystectomy: Uterine manipulation, sex-organ preservation
- ePLND and associated neuroanatomy
New technologies
- Integrated table motion of da Vinci Xi
- Advanced technologies - vessel seal and sureform stapling
Coffee break and change into scrubs
Hands-on session on human cadaver model - female & male
- Port placement and docking
- Radical cystectomy with corresponding neuroanatomical dissection
- Step-by-step neobladder reconstruction
Lunch at the Orsi restaurant
Hands-on session on human cadaver model - female & male
- Continue step-by-step neobladder reconstruction
Debrief and keynotes
End of the course
Resources
Flyer robot-assisted radical cystectomy with different urinary diversions 2025
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