Time |
Lecture |
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| Wednesday 22nd |
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| 6:00-9:00 pm |
Welcome Cocktail Reception |
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Thursday 23rd |
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7:30 |
Welcome |
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7:45 - 8:30 |
Session A: Cervical Trauma: 2 moderators |
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7:45 – 7:54 |
Os Odontoideum: What is it, when do you treat it? |
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7:55 – 8:04 |
Transoral resection of the dens. Indications and techniques |
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8:05 - 8:14 |
Robotic (daVinci) transoral odontoidectomy |
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8:15 – 8:30 |
Questions |
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8:30 to 9:00 |
30 min breakfast break with Family |
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9:05 – 10:15 |
Session B: Thoracolumbar: 2 moderators |
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9:05 - 9:09 |
Pathologic Compression Fracture Case presentation |
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9:10 – 9:14 |
Vertebroplasty |
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9:15 – 9:19 |
Balloon kyphoplasty |
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9:20 – 9:24 |
Structural kyphoplasty |
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9:25 – 9:39 |
Questions |
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9:40 –9:42 |
Central Thoracic Disc Herniation Case Presentation / Moderator: |
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9:43 – 9:50 |
Open transthoracic |
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9:51 – 9:58 |
Thoracoscopic |
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9:59 – 10:06 |
Direct lateral (minitransthoracic w/o lung deflation) |
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10:07- 10:15 |
Questions |
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10:15 – 10:27 |
Coffee Break |
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10:30 – 11:30 |
Session C: Controversies in T-L Spine: 2 moderators |
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10:30 – 10:31 |
Grade I spondylolisthesis |
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10:32 – 10:39 |
Decompression only |
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10:40 – 10:47 |
X-Stop |
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10:48 – 10:55 |
Decompression + Fusion |
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10:56 - 11:08 |
Questions |
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11:09 – 11:10 |
Single level L4-5 discogenic back pain in 35 year old male with no significant canal stenosis Case Presentation |
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11:11 – 11:18 |
ALIF |
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11:19 – 11:26 |
XLIF |
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11:27 – 11:34 |
PLIF/TLIF |
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11:35 – 11:45 |
Questions |
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11:30 AM |
End |
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Friday 24th |
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8:00 – 8:45 |
Minimally Invasive Approaches: Video/slide demos: 1 moderator |
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8:00 - 8:12: |
X-LIF |
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8:13 – 8:25: |
TLIF |
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8:26 – 8:38: |
TransSacral |
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8:38 – 9:00 |
Questions |
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9:00 – 9:30 |
Breakfast break |
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9:30 - 10:45: |
Minimally Invasive Workshop I |
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10:50 – 12:00: |
Minimally Invasive Workshop II |
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12:00 – 12:45 |
Lunch & Business Meeting |
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Saturday 25th |
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7:55 -8:00 |
Announcements |
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8:00 – 8:45 |
Session A: Cervical: 2 moderators |
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8:00 – 8:08 |
Anterior Cervical Foraminotomy |
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8:09 – 8:17 |
Cervical Arthroplasty, what have we learned thus far? |
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8:18 - 8:26 |
Asymptomatic stenosis with and without cord signal change – do we need to decompress? |
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8:27 – 8:35 |
Operative treatment of hangman’s fractures: ACDF vs interfragmentary vs C1 or 2 to3? |
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8:36 - 8:44 |
Cervical Spine Surgery in Ethiopia |
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8:45 – 8:55 |
Questions |
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9:00 to 9:30 |
30 min breakfast break with Family |
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9:30 – 10:15 |
Session B: Basic Science and Diagnostics: 2 moderators |
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9:30 – 9:39 |
BMP lumbar spine, bone marrow aspirate, etc: principles, applications, experience in the use of osteobiologics and synthethic grafting materials |
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9:40 – 9:49 |
Alternative methods of finding the pain generator:Functional Anesthetic Discography, SPECT/CT,Traditional discography |
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9:50 – 9:59 |
Cellular/molecular update. Disc regeneration, gene therapy |
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10:00 – 10:14 |
Questions |
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10:15- 10:28 |
Coffee Break |
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10:30 – 11:45 |
Session C: T-L Spine: 2 moderators |
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Percutaneous discectomies: should we be doing more? |
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10:30 - 10:37 |
Direct Lateral for thoracic disc |
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10:38 – 10:45 |
lateral extracavitary approach and tumors |
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10:46 – 10:53 |
Stereotactic Radiosurgery |
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10:54 – 11:14 |
Questions |
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11:15 – 11:24 |
Adult thoracic deformity: Indications & Techniques |
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11:25 - 11:34 |
Adult Lumbar deformity: Indications & Techniques |
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11:35 - 11:44 |
Biomechanics of Spinal Instrumentation |
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11:45 -12:00 |
Questions & Closing Remarks |
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Adjourn |
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