Advanced Laryngeal, Pharyngeal & Laser & Endoscopic, Simulation Surgery (Thiel Cadaver)

This course has been approved by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and has been awarded 12 CPD points.

Day 1: Laryngeal Surgery

• Diagnostic Microlaryngoscopy set up & endoscopic anatomy of the Larynx

• CO2 laser: science & safety | hands on simulation surgery

• Setting up CO2 laser: surgical pearls

• Surgical Management of Benign Laryngeal Pathology 

• Vocal Cord Paralysis: Endoscopic and Transcervical injection augmentation of the vocal cord

• European Laryngology Association Classification of Laryngeal Laser Surgery

• Surgical Management of Subglottic Pathology

• Thyroplasty: Type 1

Day 2: Pharyngeal Surgery

• Endoscopic Anatomy and Clinical examination of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract

• Transnasal Esophagoscopy

• Transnasal Endoscopic Assessment of Swallowing and management of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia with endoscopic balloon dilatation

• Management of Pharyngeal Pouch: Endoscopic & External approach

• Demonstration Endoscopic Stapling of Pharyngeal Pouch on Pig cadaver model

• (All participants will have facility to practice this on pig model)

• Endoscopic Management of Pharyngeal Pouch with laser 

• CO2 laser procedures for tongue base pathology

• KTP Laser in animal hybrid model

• Blue laser in animal hybrid model

• Channel endoscopy for outpatient interventions