E.S.S.U. - European School of Surgical Ultrasonography

1st WEEK: September 22-26, 2008 2nd WEEK: October 27-30, 2008

Ultrasound for Surgeons or better Surgical Ultrasonography is modifying the surgical practice both in emergency and in elective surgery.
Operative decision making, and patient care are significantly improved by using the ultrasound. This evidence makes necessary to provide a wide and qualified educational offer for surgeons who are interested in getting deeper in the use of ultrasound in their daily practice. For this purpose the European School of Surgical Ultrasonography (E.S.S.U.) has been thought and established: targets of ESSU are providing a main course, which could introduce surgeons to the various aspects of surgical ultrasonography, but also offering other courses dedicated to focus on specific use of ultrasound such as the intraoperative use, the use in emergency, the use for guiding interventional procedures, and the endocavitary use. For that, ESSU is the place where surgeons may focus on physical principles of ultrasound use in clinical practice, could find details on ultrasound equipment, may learn on diagnostic and interventional ultrasound-guided procedures, and could be introduced to the intraoperative use of ultrasound.
All this will be done with lectures, live demonstrations and skill sessions involving an outstanding international faculty of specialists in the various fields of ultrasound clinical applications. Better understanding of ultrasound and moreover acquisition of the bases to start their own practice with it is the mission of ESSU, which should allow present and next generation of surgeons to feel the way ultrasound is changing their surgical practice, and to perform safer and more effective surgical procedures.

Guido Torzilli, MD, PhD
Marco Montorsi, MD

TOPICS
• Principles for Ultrasound use
• Ultrasonographic Anatomy
• Intraoperative Ultrasonography
• Endosonography
• Endorectal Ultrasonography
• Contrast-enhanced Ultrasonography
• Interventional Ultrasonography
• Ultrasound in Liver Surgery and Transplantation
• Ultrasound in Pancreatic Surgery
• Ultrasound in Trauma
• Ultrasound in Surgical Complications
• Ultrasound in Vascular Surgery
• Ultrasound for Surgery of Small Parts
• Live demonstration of surgical procedures carried out under ultrasound guidance
• Live demonstration of interventional procedures carried out under ultrasound guidance
• Practical skills

SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT
Daniele Del Fabbro
Liver Surgery Unit
3rd Department of General Surgery
Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS
Faculty of Medicine University of Milan
Via A. Manzoni, 56
20089 Rozzano - Milano
Tel.: +39 02 8224 4554
Fax: +39 02 8224 4590
e-mail: info@essu.it - Web site: www.essu.it

ORGANIZING SECRETARIAT
AIM Group - AIM Congress S.r.l.
Via G. Ripamonti, 129
20141 Milano - Italy
Tel.: + 39 02 566011
Fax: + 39 02 56609045
E-mail: essu2008@aimgroup.it
Web site: www.aimgroup.eu/2008/essu

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