Course overview
Theory I Provides a thorough introduction into the history of minimally invasive surgery. Students will then investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information on a large range of theoretical and practical aspects of minimally invasive surgery including operating theatre design-endo suite standards, the anatomy of a trouble shooting for a laparoscopic tower, laparoscopes, visualisation systems and recording devices, electrosurgery, energy devices, harmonics, ligasure and thunderbeat, plasma medicine, tissue approaximation, suture technique and staple technology.
Course learning outcomes
- Understand the basis and relevance of the program and understand how continuous innovation in surgical technique and instrumentation has brought minimally invasive surgery to its current state.
- Appreciate the fundamentals about operating theatre design and endosuite standards for the future and predict how changing technology will influence operation theatre design.
- Demonstrate mastery in the anatomy of, and trouble shooting for, a laparoscopic tower and to have the skills and knowledge to correct malfunctions in the components of the laparoscopic tower.
- Demonstrate an understanding of laparoscopes, visualisation systems and recording devices used in minimally invasive surgery.
- Demonstrate the mastery of theoretical knowledge relating to electrosurgery in open and laparoscopic surgery.
- Understand the theoretical knowledge relating to energy devices: Harmonics, Ligasure and Thunderbeat that are available for dissection in laparoscopic surgery.
- Understand complex information regarding plasma medicine and how it can be applied to surgery, wound healing and sterilisation.
- Demonstrate knowledge on the tissue approximation suture technique and how to use the appropriate suture material for laparoscopic suturing and knots.
- Demonstrate an understanding in the history of the development of stapling devices and be familiar with the array of stapling devices that are available.