General info
Orsi Academy offers a 2-day course in Robotic Low Anterior Resection surgery for surgeons who want master the robotic surgery approach. With a strong focus on hands-on training, participants will optimize their technique through expert guidance and human cadaver lab sessions.
This 2-day course consists of:
- Hands-on training on human cadaver tissue, isolated organic models and theoretical sessions at Orsi Academy
What you will learn
- To comprehensively cover the robotic technique in Low anterior resection
- Good understanding of the robotic port placement
- Overview of the procedure related robotic instruments
- Improvement of dissection skills to facilitate the mobilization and ligation steps within the procedure
- Optimizing anastomosis technique – hand-sewn versus robotic stapled
Faculty
Program
Welcome and introduction to the course
Theoretical session: Personal experience with robotic surgery
Theoretical session: Robotic surgery why?
- Tips for getting through the learning curve
- Patient selection criteria
- Setting goals
Theoretical session: OR setup
- Port Placement & Patient Positioning
- Adequate Instrument Selection & Energy Use
- Overview of the procedure steps
- IMA ligatio
- Medial to lateral mobilisation
- IMV ligation
- Splenic flexure mobilization
- Pelvic dissection – posterior, anterior, and lateral
- Division of mesentery – use of ICG
- Robotic stapling and anastomosis
- Use of the 3rd arm for Retraction
Coffee break & change into scrubs
Hands-on training on isolated bowel model (multiple) in abdominal trainer
- Port placement and robotic set-up simulation
- Dissection skills by skeletonize and dividing vessels in mesentery of bowel specimen
- Bowel resection by stapling and anastomosis (ICA hand-swen vs stapling)
Lunch at Orsi restaurant
Hands-on training on isolated bowel model (multiple) in abdominal trainer
- Bowel resection by stapling and anastomosis ( ICA hand-swen vs stapling)
- Robotic manipulation of anvil and position of the bowel
- Multiple repetition of the different key steps
End of day 1
Faculty dinner in Ghent city center
Theoretical session
- Case discussion and tips and tricks in more complex cases
- Vascular control
- Management of complications
Hands-on training on human cadaver tissue
- IMA exposure and clipping – IMV division
- Left-sided colon resection
- Medial to lateral mobilization of colon
- Splenic flexure takedown
Lunch at Orsi restaurant
Hands-on training on human cadaver tissue
- Intra-operative adjustments (table motion – dual docking – port hopping)
- Rectal dissection
- Identification of SRA – dissecting the TME plan
- Identification of hypogastric nerves
- Posterior dissection rectum
- Right lateral and anterior dissection rectum
- Left lateral dissection
- Excision of rectum by stapling
- Anastomosis
- Specimen extraction and circular stapling
Debriefing and feedback
End of the course
Resources
Low anterior resection course 2026
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