CME Credit Hours: 1.25
This symposium will highlight potential complications that can occur during common colorectal surgical procedures, as well as describe / illustrate methods for rapid identification and management of these serious adverse events. The presenters will review brief videos, when possible, which capture difficulties that surgeons may encounter. Detailed review of the encountered complications and how one can recover from them will be reviewed.
Objectives
At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:
- Explain the potential intra-operative complications that may occur during common surgical procedures
- Identify the above potential complications
- Employ surgical management strategies to manage the above complications
Co-Directors
Steven Lee-Kong, MD, New York, NY
Dipen Maun, MD, Mooresville, IN
Introduction
Steven Lee-Kong, MD, New York, NY
Dipen Maun, MD, Mooresville, IN
Was That the Ureter?
Sergey Khaitov, MD, New York, NY
How Did all that Blood Get There?
Alodia Gabre-Kidan MD, Columbia, MD
Had to Be a Stapler Misfire!
Toyooki Sonoda, MD, Garden City, NY
TaTME – What Plane am I In?
Elisabeth McLemore, MD, Los Angeles, CA
Not Really that NICE
Jean-Paul LeFave, MD, Houston, TX
Is that the Peritoneum we are Looking at?
Garrett Friedman, MD, Las Vegas, NV
Collateral Damage During “Routine” Colectomy?
Matthew Mutch, MD, St. Louis, MO
Pelvic Surgery in the Morbidly Obese
David Dietz, MD, Cleveland, OH
Question & Answer
Adjourn