General info
Orsi Academy offers a 2-day course in Robotic Transoral Surgery for surgeons with basic robotic skills who want to master the robotic surgery approach in transoral procedures.
Proctored and one-to-one teaching by top-expert Dr. Tom Vauterin!
The 2-day masterclass consists of 2 full days of hands-on training on human cadaveric and live porcine tissue at Orsi Academy.
What you will learn
- To comprehensively cover procedural skills in robot-assisted transoral procedures.
Faculty
Program
Welcome, coffee & introduction
Lecture on objectives in transoral robotic surgery
- Robotic-assisted: why?
- Patient selection
- Patient positioning
- Robotic set-up
- Instruments and accessory considerations
- Anatomy
- Dissection
- Tongue base resection
- Managing complications
- Injury management
- Combined procedures
Change into scrubs
Hands-on session on live animal tissue
- Training model: anesthetized porcine model
- Robotic-assisted tongue base surgery
- Surgical set-up (FK-WO retractor)
- Robotic installation and anatomical tongue base exposure
- Tongue base resection and reconstruction
Lunch at the Orsi restaurant
Continue hands-on session on live animal tissue
- Anatomical dissection
- Haemostasis
- Reconstruction
- Vascular injury control
End of day 1
Faculty dinner in Ghent city center
Lecture on objectives in transoral robotic surgery
- Case discussion
- Pitfalls in robotic surgery
- Learning curve in the transoral approach
- Anatomy of the head and neck from the inside
- Lateral oropharyngectomy
Change into scrubs
Hands-on session on human cadaver tissue
- Robotic-assisted tongue base surgery
- Surgical set-up (FK-WO retractor)
- Robotic installation and anatomical tongue base exposure
- Tongue base resection and reconstruction
Lunch at the Orsi restaurant
Continue hands-on session on human cadaver tissue
- Continue tongue base approach
- Lateral oropharyngectomy
- Supraglottic laryngectomy
- Anatomical dissection
- Reconstruction
End of the course
Prices
Standard fee 2026
Incl. of VAT
Resources
Flyer Robotic transoral surgery
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