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Endoscopic Spine Surgery Essentials: Interlaminar Lumbar Discectomy

Starts: Sun 8:00AM CT (Sep 01, 2024) Ends: Mon 8:00AM CT (Aug 19, 2024) OnDemand

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This course on Interlaminar Lumbar Discectomy is tailored to help you effectively select appropriate patients for beginners' cases and navigate potential challenges. You'll learn to identify patient anatomy, relevant anatomic structures, and correctly interpret the interlaminar window at the targeted level. The course covers optimal patient positioning, OR setup, key steps of the discectomy procedure, and intraoperative imaging techniques, ensuring you can avoid common pitfalls.

The course consists of 7 modules, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of each step involved in the procedure and will take approximately 1 hour to complete.

1. Patient Selection
2. Surgical Anatomy
3. Surgical Planning
4. OR Setup and Patient Positioning
5. Surgical Steps
6. Intra-Operative Imaging
7. Post-Operative Care

After the conclusion of the 7th module, you are encouraged to answer knowledge check questions. Answering the questions is not required to complete the course, however you are encouraged to take them to assess your retention of the material.

Chair

Michael Y. Wang, MD, MBA

Faculty

Christoph J. Siepe, MD, PhD

Magdy G. Youssef, MD

Contributor

Meng Huang, MD

What You Will Learn

Upon completion of this course, participants should gain strategies to:

Select suitable patients for beginners' cases and identify the patient's anatomy with respect to the planned surgical approach;

Recognize possible intraoperative challenges that may be encountered and modify your approach in accordance with the underlying pathology;

Identify perioperative steps in patient care and provide the patient with adequate postoperative guidance.

Disclaimer

NASS courses are created to enhance physician understanding of the complexity of performing these procedures only. The course is not designed to certify that attendees are proficient in the procedures taught in the course. NASS strongly advises participants to continue to have proctoring, mentoring and additional experience prior to treating patients.

Audience

All Members and Nonmembers in the medical field.

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Registration: General Registration
 Member$199.00
 Member In-Training$59.00
 Non-Member$349.00

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Continuing Medical Education (CME)s

The North American Spine Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The North American Spine Society designates this enduring activity for a maximum of

1.25

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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We want to make sure that your registration process is a pleasant one, so if you have any trouble or a question, please email or call us at (630) 230-3600.

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