Friday, 8 April 2011
Time Topics
1230 Lunch & Learn:
Advances in mesh prosthetics
Franklin. Sponsored by Atrium
1330 Session I: Moderators: Catts, Campanelli
Opening Ceremony (Tran)
State-of-the-art lecture (Franklin)
1400 Epidemiology of Hernia Surgery in Australia: The North-South divide (Tran)
1410 Inguinal Anatomy (Franklin)
1425 European Hernia Classification (Campanelli)
1435 The Lichenstein Hernia Repair by the Lichenstein Institute (Amid)
1500 Litigation in hernia surgery: The best writs are the ones we never get (Mann)
1530 BREAK
1600 Session II: Moderators: Franklin, Amato
Ventral Hernia: Open and Laparoscopic
1600 Simplified stapling version of open retromuscular repair of incisional (Amid)
1620 LVHR: My experience (Martin)
1640 LVHR: Our 13-year experience (Sharma)
1700 Panel discussion
1730 CONCLUSION OF DAY
1800 AGM of AHS
Saturday, 9 April 2011
0730 Breakfast & Learn: Teaching session for trainees: Meet the Masters
(Ritchie, Amid)
0830 Session III: Moderators: Franklin, Sharma
Inguinal/Ventral Hernia Repair:
0830 Use of Omega-3 coated polypropylene mesh in inguinal hernia repair (Franklin)
0845 Poly L-lactic acid nanosheet in adhesion prevention - an experimental model (Fujino)
0900 Influence of nerve resection IPOM approach & repair of failed inguinal hernia repair (Russek)
0920 LVHR (Sharma)
0940 Single incision LVHR (Tran)
1000 Lap IPOM for LVHR (Kukleta)
1015 Lap IPOM for difficult suprapubic, lateral and multiply recurrent inguinal hernias (Tran)
1030 BREAK
1100 Session IV: Moderators: Campanelli, Amid
Inguinal Hernia Repair
1100 Pathologic anatomy of hernia disease (Amato)
1120 Bioabsorbable synthetic mesh in open inguinal hernia repair (Campanelli)
1140 Fixation free inguinal hernia repair using dynamic autostatic implant inducing an enhanced biological response (Amato)
1200 State-of-the-art Lecture: Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery & Robotic Single-port Hernia Surgery (Tran)
1230 BREAK
1300 Lunch & Learn: Advances in Mesh Prosthetics Campanelli, Tran. Sponsored by WL Gore
1400 Session V: Moderators: Sutedja, Amato
Treatment of chronic groin pain
1400 Groin neuroanatomy and pathophysiology of inguinodynia (Amid)
1425 Treatment of groin pain in athletes (Halpin)
1440 Surgical treatment of pubic inguinal pain syndrome (Campanelli)
1455 Mesh fixation and pain (Kukleta)
1515 Laparoscopic trineurectomy (Tran)
1530 BREAK
1600 Session VI: Moderators: Franklin, Kukleta
Fibrin sealant & parastomal hernias
1600 Fibrin sealant in prevention of adhesions (Hawthorne)
1615 Parastomal hernias: A colorectal surgeon’s perspective (Renaut)
1630 Use of prosthetic mesh as prevention of incisional hernias after stoma take down (Russek)
1645 Laparoscopic parastomal hernia repair with modified Sugarbaker technique (Tran)
1700 Panel Discussion
1730 CONCLUSION OF DAY
1900 Congress Dinner
Invited Speaker: Mrs Julie Attwood MP
Concert by John Davies and Rafaello Pierno
Sunday, 10 April 2011
0800 Session VII: Diverse Topics
Moderators: Sutedja, Catts
State of the Art lecture:
Hernia surgery: two decades of progress (Kukleta)
0825 Hernia surgery in India (Sharma)
0840 Causes, prevention and surgical treatment of post-herniorraphy chronic pain (Amid)
0855 Hiccups: A rare complication of TEP inguinal hernia repair (Navaratnam)
0905 Umbilical hernia repair — current controversies (Tran)
0920 Umbilical hernia repair with 3D mesh (Premath)
0930 Use of intraperitoneal Polypropylene Mesh: A forbidden option? (Russek)
0945 Fixation free open ventral hernia using a new mesh with integrated placement straps (Amato)
1000 BREAK
1030 Session VIII: How do I do it
Moderators: Kukleta, Sharma
Video libraries of the Australasian Hernia Society and from around the world
1030 Umbilical hernia repair with extraperitoneally placed mesh (Tran)
1040 Lichenstein Hernia repair (Kingsnorth)
1050 TEP repair: My technique (Ritchie)
1100 TAPP repair: My technique (Kukleta)
1110 Tips & tricks for difficult laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair (Sharma)
1120 SILS TEP repair (Tran)
1130 LVHR: My technique (Sharma)
1140 SILS LVHR (Tran)
1150 SILS Parastomal repair with modified Sugarbaker technique (Tran)
1200 Lunch & Learn
Laparo-endoscopic Single-Site Surgery with Triport (Tran) Sponsored by Olympus
1300 END OF CONGRESS
