18th September 2015 (Friday)
Mini-symposium 1: (15min each)
Main Lecture Hall A+B
11:30 – 12:30
IONM IN ENDOSCOPIC THYROIDECTOMY
Moderator: Hoon Yub Kim, South Korea
Panelists: Laurent Brunaud (France), Celestino Pio Lombardi (Italy), David Terris (USA), Su-jin Kim (South Korea), Barney Harrison (UK), Martin Walz (Germany)
1. Hoon Yub Kim (South Korea) Robotic BABA thyroidectomy with IONM – how I do it
2. Woung-Youn Chung (South Korea) Robotic transaxillary thyroidectomy – how I do it
3. Laurent Brunaud (France) Robotic transaxillary thyroidectomy with IONM – why I do it in Europe
4. Celestino Pio Lombardi (Italy) MIVAT with IONM
Mini-symposium 2: (15min each)
Small Lecture Room
11:30 – 12:30
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VAGAL NERVE DISSECTION
Moderators: Gianlorenzo Dionigi (Italy)
Panelists: Claudio Cernea (Brasil), Aleksander Konturek (Poland), Davide Lombardi (Italy), Paolo Carcoforo (Italy)
1. Aleksander Konturek (Poland) Embriology and anatomy of the vagus nerve
2. Gianlorenzo Dionigi (Italy) Surgical approaches to vagal nerve for c-IONM
3. Christoph Ulmer (Germany) Safety of vagal nerve dissection and c-IONM
Discussion 15min
19th September 2015 (Saturday)
Mini-symposium 3: (15min each)
Main Lecture Hall A+B
11:00 – 12:00
EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL MODELS FOR RLN INJURY
Moderator: Feng-Yu Chiang, Taiwan
Panelists: Gianlorenzo Dionigi (Italy), Hoon Yub Kim( South Korea), Che-Wei Wu (Taiwan), Aleksander Konturek (Poland), Rumen Pandev (Bulgaria)
1. Che-Wei Wu (Taiwan) Traction injury of the RLN in porcine model
2. Hoon Yub Kim (South Korea) Traction injury of the RLN in swine model
3. Gregory W. Randolph (USA) What we can learn from animal studies in canine
Mini-symposium 4: (20min each)
Medium Lecture Hall A+B
11:00 – 12:00
EDUCATION AND TRAINING WITH IONM
Moderator: Martin Walz, Germany)
Panelists: Erivelto Volpi (Brasil), Juan Pablo Duenos Munoz (Columbia), Piero Alesina (Germany), Xiaoli Liu (China), Marcin Barczyński (Poland)
1. Piero Alesina (Germany) IONM for surgical training in thyroid surgery
2. Xiaoli Liu (China) IONM courses in China
3. Marcin Barczyński (Poland) Accreditation of IONM courses by the INMSG
