| |
Monday, April 28, 2008
BREAKFAST SEMINARS, Time: 7:30 – 9:30 am
#107 Coil vs. Clip for Intracranial Aneurysms
#110 Complications and Complex Spinal Surgery:
Lessons Learned
#114 How I Do It: Vascular Microsurgery
PLENARY SESSION I, Time: 11:45–11:59 am
#603 Barrow Ruptured Aneurysm Trial
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
BREAKFAST SEMINARS, Time: 7:30 – 9:30 am
#202 Minimally Invasive Spinal Neurosurgery: State-of-the-Art
Complete 2008 AANS Scientific Programs:
Practical Clinics
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
(Source: www.AANS.org)
| Coil vs. Clip for Intracranial Aneurysms (107) |
| |
Monday, April 28, 2008 - 7:30 – 9:30 am
Moderator
B. Gregory Thompson, Jr., MD
Panelists
Felipe C. Albuquerque, MD; Gavin W.
Britz, MD; C. Michael Cawley, III, MD;
Adel M. Malek, MD; Charles Joseph
Prestigiacomo, MD
This seminar will highlight the current controversies surrounding the optional management of ruptured and unruptured intracranial aneurysms. Experts in the field will present their perspectives, experience and ideas for future study.
Learning Objectives
After completing this educational activity, participants should be able to:
• Analyze individual patients and make more informed treatment recommendations
• Evaluate available data and determine their significance for ruptured and unruptured intracranial aneurysms
• Assess treatment failures in intracranial aneurysms
• Assemble strategies for salvage of intracranial Aneurysms
Complications and Complex Spinal Surgery:
Lessons Learned (110) |
| |
Monday, April 28, 2008 - 7:30 – 9:30 am
Moderator
Volker K. H. Sonntag, MD
Panelists
Regis W. Haid, Jr., MD; Paul C.
McCormick, MD; Stephen L. Ondra, MD
This seminar will utilize distinctive presentation and panel discussion of cases to analyze complications associated with complex spine surgery. An emphasis will be placed on complication avoidance and management.
Learning Objectives
After completing this educational activity, participants should be able to:
• Analyze the causes of surgical complications in the spine
• Formulate strategies to avoid and manage spine surgery complications and apply these principles to one’s practice
| How I Do It: Vascular Microsurgery (114) |
| |
Monday, April 28, 2008 - 7:30 – 9:30 am
Moderator
Michael T. Lawton, MD
Panelists
Evandro De Oliveira, MD, PhD; Nobuo
Hashimoto, MD; Jacques J. Morcos, MD,
FRCS; Robert A. Solomon, MD
This seminar will address the surgeon’s approach to vascular microsurgery. It will include discussions of approach, management of vascular lesions, pitfalls and complications.
Learning Objectives
After completing this educational activity, participants should be able to:
• Identify a variety of surgical approaches for vascular lesions
• Identify indications for vascular microsurgery
• Describe the most common complications encountered in vascular microsurgery approaches
| Barrow Ruptured Aneurysm Trial (603) |
| |
Monday, April 28, 2008 - 11:45–11:59 am
Authors
Cameron G. McDougall, MD, FRCSC;
Joseph M. Zabramski, MD; Felipe C.
Albuquerque, MD; Robert C. Wallace,
MD; Shahram Partovi, MD; Richard
Clatterbuck, MD; Robert F. Spetzler,
MD, FACS
| Minimally Invasive Spinal Neurosurgery: State-of-the-Art (202) |
| |
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 7:30 – 9:30 am
Moderator
Kevin T. Foley, MD
Panelists
Domagoj Coric, MD; Kurt M. Eichholz,
MD; Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD;
Maurice M. Smith, MD
This seminar will focus on endoscopic and minimally invasive techniques for cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine surgery.
Techniques for decompression and fusion will be discussed.
Learning Objectives
After completing this educational activity, participants should be able to:
• Describe various endoscopic and minimally invasive techniques for spinal surgery
• Discuss the indications, results and potential complications for these techniques
| |
Top
Top
Top
Top
Top |