The goal of the course would be to help guide medical students, Resident and Young Neurosurgeons to be involve, create and be successful in research at all these stages.
Moderator: Alice Edwards, PA-C, MHCM – Rutgers State of New Jersey/ RWJBarnabas Health
Moderator: Robin Saiki, DNP, ACNP-BC – University of Colorado School of Medicine Dept. of Neurosurgery
This course offers a review and update of essential concepts in neurotrauma and neurocritical care for providers attending to patients with neurologic injury in the ICU setting. The course is designed with an emphasis on refreshing and advancing knowledge to meet Maintenance of Certification (MOC) goals, but those preparing for the ABNS Oral Board Exam or who desire a general overview of neurocritical care topics should find it informative as well. This course focuses on aspects of general critical care management including ventilator management, blood pressure considerations, fluid resuscitation, nosocomial infection, sedation and analgesia, hematologic issues and nutrition as they pertain to neurosurgical patients. Experts present clinical case vignettes, each linked to a series of questions designed to test the provider’s understanding of treatment concepts. Discussion and self-assessment will be enhanced through the use of an interactive audience response system (ARS), allowing participants to enter responses and view the range of peer answers in real-time.
This course teaches the essentials of brain mapping for tumors and epilepsy, with particular focus on technical nuances learned by experts over decades of experience.
Faculty will discuss their clinical experience with planning and patient positioning using the ExcelsiusTM Prone Lateral Surgical Solution. Attendees will have a better understanding of procedural workflow, how the new Prone Lateral Patient Positioner provides optimized support for patient positioning, and how robotic navigation can help enable more efficiency in the operating room. There will be case examples and discussion as well as tips and tricks for managing different patient anatomies and achieving the desired surgical outcomes.
Sponsored by: Globus Medical
This engaging spotlight session highlights the need to improve fusion success rates while navigating treatment selection in the complex bone graft landscap. Participants can expect to learn about i-FACTOR as a potential solution in single-level ACDF spinal fusion surgery, including recently released 72-month data from the IDE study.
Faculty will discuss their clinical experience with planning and patient positioning using the ExcelsiusTM Prone Lateral Surgical Solution. Attendees will have a better understanding of procedural workflow, how the new Prone Lateral Patient Positioner provides optimized support for patient positioning, and how robotic navigation can help enable more efficiency in the operating room. There will be case examples and discussion as well as tips and tricks for managing different patient anatomies and achieving the desired surgical outcomes.
Sponsored by: Globus Medical
Sponsored by: Medtronic
PTP utilizes a maximally efficient prone position while providing a consistently reproducible approach, enabling the surgeon to achieve powerful alignment. PTP is the next step for lateral interbody fusion (LIF) bringing together the benefits of an MIS transpsoas approach with the advantages of an ergonomic prone position, facilitating an intuitively superior single-position surgery used to treat a wide range of patient pathologies.
As the author of ”nTMS in neurosurgery” Krieg provides a comprehensive overview on nTMS as a perioperative adjunct which revolutionized neurophysiology by providing non-invasive risk assessment and postoperative treatment of surgery-related motor deficits. Insights on recently published machine learning approaches and current evidence on nTMS vs awake surgery will complete his presentation. Narayana demonstrates the feasibility of nTMS motor and language mapping in children and discuss their integration into the pediatric tumor and epilepsy surgeries.
Sponsored by: Nexstim
This 90-minute session will review important technical nuances for improving patient outcomes during microsurgery. Detailed surgical videos of different procedures will be reviewed using 3-D high definition videos to maximize the learning experience for the viewers. Importantly, innovative 3-D computerized graphic models will be presented to augment the learning experience.
Join Synaptive Medical in the Neuro Hub on Saturday April 22nd, to learn more about their Next - Generation robotic exoscope Modus X. Industry leader Dr. Costas Hadjipanayis will be sharing his early accounts as the first surgeon in the world to utilize Modus X for fluorescence guided surgery.
Sponsored by: Synaptive
Join the NREF for an evening of celebration, honoring the history and achievements of Women in Neurosurgery. Net proceeds will support the NREF’s research and education mission to train, inspire and encourage female neurosurgeons to realize their goals and advance the profession.
Tickets are $150 per person
This workshop focuses on the comprehensive, multifunctional use of the ExcelsiusGPS® robotic navigation platform for spine and cranial applications. Attendees will have a better understanding of procedural applications for both spine and stereotactic cranial procedures. The surgeon panel will discuss procedural workflows and benefits of robotic navigation for these types of surgeries.
This session will provide attendees with an overview of the common classes of bone graft products popular today, providing insight into the regulatory approval pathways and examining the efficacy, safety, and other key characteristics of each product and how this information should impact surgeon decision making.
A faculty of distinguished speakers will review a variety of challenging cases and techniques to optimize dural reconstruction and regeneration. Introduce the biology of and advances in materials for dural repair and regeneration. Present challenges and solutions to address dural repair following trauma in a military theater setting.
Sponsored by: Integra
Course Description: This 90-minute session will review important technical nuances for complication avoidance during complex cranial cases. Detailed surgical videos of different procedures will be reviewed using 3-D high definition videos. Importantly, innovative 3-D computerized graphic models will be presented to augment the learning experience.