Training in Basic Laparoscopic Surgery

Course Itinerary

Day: 1 & 2

Dry-Lab Simulation Training in Knotting & Suturing (9AM TO 5 PM) by Master Trainer S. Prakash Babu

• To Hints and tips of laparoscopic suturing
• Ergonomics and port placement for laparoscopic suturing
• Effective and safe laparoscopic tissue handling
• Interrupted and continuous suturing techniques
• A range of needle manipulation techniques and handling skills and accurate bite placement
• Intracorporeal surgeon’s knot and tumbled square knot
• Extra-corporeal knotting techniques

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course each trainee should be able to:

• Safely introduce and pick up a curved needle in an appropriate position to make a bite through tissue.
• Pass a needle and suture through tissues at suitable depth and distance for interrupted and continuous suturing
• Tie a safe laparoscopic Surgeon’s knot
• Create a laparoscopic tumbled square knot
• Demonstrate continuous suturing, maintaining tension and completing the suture line safelyacquire advanced laparoscopic skills in the lab: suturing, handsewn anastomosis, bleed controls in emergency situations

DAY: 3 to 7

Training Basic (9AM TO 5 PM)

• Lectures
• Presentations
• Discussions
• Real-time didactic exposure to all
• Basic Laparoscopic Surgical Procedures
• Safe dissection techniques using various energy sources
• Diagnostic procedures
• Appendectomy
• Cholecystectomy
• Hernia-repair