SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
LATIN AMERICAN COURSE IN PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY
Venue: Fortaleza, Ceará – Brazil
Hotel Dom Pedro Laguna
April, from 4th to 9th 2022
Support
SBN-ped
SBN
CLANped
ESPN Training & Education Committee
WFNS
ABNc
ISPN
Ricardo Gepp
President of the Brazilian Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery - SBNPed
Local Organizing Committee (Directors)
Ricardo Santos de Oliveira (Ribeirão Preto, Brazil)
Eduardo Jucá (Fortaleza, Brasil)
Simone Rogério (Belém, Brazil)
DAY 1 (Monday) - Arrival of attendees & Opening Session – April, 4th
| 17h00 às 18h00 | LACPN faculty meeting | |
| 20h00 às 23h00 | Welcome Opening Ceremony Dinner Introduction of the course |
Eduardo Jucá Simone Rogério |
DAY 2 (Tuesday) - April, 5th
| 06h30 às 07h30 | Breakfast | |
| 07h30 às 08h00 | Sunrise on the beach | Group activity (Team building) Eduardo Jucá Simone Rogério Ricardo Oliveira |
| 08h20 - 13h00 Morning session | ||
| HEMISPHERIC TUMORS Chairperson Simone Rogério / Nelci ZANON | ||
| 08h20 às 08h40 | Benign cortical | Hamilton MATUSHITA |
| hemispheric tumors | ||
| 08h40 às 09h00 | Classification and biology of childhood supratentorial brain tumors in 2022 | Tatiana PROTZENKO |
| 09h00 às 09h20 | Supratentorial Giant Brain tumors | Ricardo DE OLIVEIRA |
| 09h20 às 09h40 | Thalamic tumors: specificities of tumors of the thalamus (oncotypes, management) | Ramiro DEL RIO |
| 09h40 às 10h00 | How I do it: approaches to the thalamus / complications | Luca MASIMI |
| 10h00 às 10h30 | Case discussion | Alvaro CORDOBA |
| 10h30 às 11h00 | Break | |
| 11h00 às 11h20 | Surgical anatomy of the insula: what a pediatric neurosurgeon should know on the insula | Feres CHADDAD |
| 11h20 às 11h40 | Insular tumors: specificities of tumors in the insula (oncotypes, management) | |
| Patricia DASTOLI | ||
| 11h40 às 12h00 | How I do it: approaches to the insula / complication | Feres CHADDAD |
| 12h00 às 12h20 | Intraventricular tumors (surgical approaches / pitfalls) | Sergio CAVALHEIRO |
| 12h20 às 12h40 | SEGA: medical and surgical indications, management | Hamilton MATUSHITA |
| 12h40 às 13h00 | Clinical Case Discussion | Adrian CACERES |
| 13h00 às 14h30 | Lunch | |
| 14h30 – 19h00 Afternoon sessions | ||
| TECHNOLOGY / BRAIN MAPPING Chairperson Ricardo Gepp | ||
| 14h30 às 14h50 | Adjuvant intraoperative techniques (cortical stimulation, mapping, brain ultrasound) | Adrian CACERES |
| 14h50 às 15h10 | How to plan a brain surgery: avoiding pitfalls | Ramiro DEL RIO |
| 15h10 às 15h30 | Sleep-awake-sleep surgery in children: indications, limits, pitfalls | Federico DI ROCCO (ON LINE) |
| 15h30 às 16h00 | Operational readiness in neurosurgery | Ricardo OLIVEIRA |
| Simultaneous rooms (break at room) |
16h00 às 19h00 - Video Session / Case Discussion [Group GREEN] Anatomy of the brain cortex, sulcus and girus | 3D anatomy |
Chairman: Feres CHADDAD Ramiro DEL RIO Eduardo JUCA Sergio CAVALHEIRO Alvaro CORDOBA |
| 16h00 às 19h00 - Hands on (neuronavigation / new technologies/pumps/ shunts) [Group BLUE] (Sponsored session) |
Chairman: Sebastian JAIMOVICH Ricardo GEPP Marcelo VOLPON Kemel GOTME Luca MASIMI |
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| 16h00 às 19h00 - Case Discussion [Group YELLOW] |
Chair: Simone ROGERIO Francisco SALOMÃO Eduardo JUCÁ Tatina PROTZENKO Nelci ZANON |
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| 20h00 às 22h30 | Dinner | Local: |
Day 3 (Wednesday), April, 6th
| 06h30 às 08h00 | Breakfast |
| 08h00 - 13h00 Afternoon session | ||
| SURGICAL TECHNIQUES Chairman: | ||
| 08h00 às 09h00 | Round Table Discussion: planning, skin incision, neuronavigation, brain ultrasound, tumor dissection, dura suspension, bone fixation, drain, skin closure, dressing, and ward protocols (Supratentorial brain tumors) |
Chairman: Patricia DASTOLI Hamilton MATUSHITA Alvaro CORDOBA Francisco SALOMÃO Simone ROGERIO |
| 09h00 às 09h20 | Parenchymal step: tips and tricks of parenchymal manipulation, coagulation, and dissection | Luca MASSIMI |
| 09h20 às 09h40 | DTI / Robotics | Sergio CAVALHEIRO |
| 09h40 às 10h00 | Intraoperative MR. Does it worth? | Patricia DASTOLI |
| 10h00 – 10h30 | Break | |
| PINEAL | Chairman Francisco SALOMÃO | |
| 10h30 às 10h50 | Classification and biology of pineal region tumors in 2022 | Kemel GOTME |
| 10h50 às 11h10 | Pineal region lesions in children: surgical management, decision-making algorithms, long term results | Patricia DASTOLI |
| 11h10 às 11h30 | Endoscopic approach to the pineal region, indications, complication and their avoidance | Alvaro CORDOBA |
| 11h30 às 11h50 | Direct surgical approaches | Sergio CAVALHEIRO |
| 11h50 às 12h10 | Management of tectal plate tumors: decision-making algorithms | Federico DI ROCCO (ON LINE) |
| 12h10 às 13h00 | Clinical cases discussion | Sebastian JAIMOVICH (25 minutes) |
| Hamilton MATUSHITA (25 minutes) | ||
| 13h00 às 18h00 | Lunch/Integrative activities | |
| 20h00 às 22h00 | Dinner | Local: Hotel |
| 22h00 | Group meeting (Green, Blue, Yellow) – discussion with tutors (preparing for trainee presentation) | Local: Hotel (business room) |
DAY 4 (Thursday) - April, 7th
| 06h30 às 08h00 | Breakfast |
| 08h00 - 13h00 Morning session | ||
| Chairman Patricia DASTOLI | ||
| Morning Lecture | ||
| 08h00 às 08h20 | Molecular biology and pediatric neurosurgery: What we can wait for the future? | Tatiana PROTZENKO |
| INTRAVENTRICULAR/ BRAIN INFECTION | ||
| 08h20 às 08h40 | History of pediatric neurosurgery: an overview | Francisco SALOMÃO |
| 08h40 às 09h00 | Management of intracranial infections | Simone ROGÉRIO |
| Brain abscess | ||
| 09h00 às 09h20 | Subdural empyema: epidemiology, diagnosis, indications, and treatment | Marcelo VOLPON |
| 09h20 às 09h40 | Zika Virus and Hydrocephalus: long term results | Eduardo JUCÁ |
| 09h40 às 10h00 | Post-operative infections: epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment | Sebastian JAIMOVICH |
| 10h00 às 10h30 | Break | |
| 10h30 às 10h50 | Cysticercosis: epidemiology, differential diagnosis, and treatment | Adrian CACERES |
| 10h50 às 11h10 | Other parasitic infections (non cysticercosis): epidemiology, differential diagnosis, and treatment | Sebastian JAIMOVICH |
| 11h10 às 12h00 | Round Table Discussion: How we prevent infections in Neurosurgery (antibiotics, shaving, post-op drainage, what else) (infection) |
Jose Francisco SALOMAO – Chairman Simone ROGÉRIO Patricia DASTOLI Marcelo VOLPON Álvaro CORDOBA |
| 12h00 às 12h30 | Control strategies for distraction and stressors in neurosurgery | Eduardo JUCÁ |
| 12h30 às 14h00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 – 17:00 Afternoon sessions | ||
| Simultaneous rooms (break at room) |
14h00 às 17h00 - Video Session [Group YELLOW] Anatomy of the brain cortex, sulcus and girus / 3D anatomy |
Chairman: Feres CHADDAD Ricardo OLIVEIRA Francisco SALOMÃO Hamilton MATUSHITA Kemel GOTME |
| 14h00 às 17h00 - Hands on (neuronavigation / new technologies / pumps / shunts) [Group GREEN] (Sponsored session) |
Chairman: Ricardo GEPP Lucas MASIMI Alvaro CORDOBA Sebastian JAIMOVICH |
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| 14h00 às 17h00 – SOLVE A CASE [Group BLUE] |
Chairs: Simone ROGERIO Nelci ZANON Sergio CAVALHEIRO Patricia DASTOLI Ramiro DEL RIO |
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| 17h00 | Time to Beach / Sunset | Caipirinha Contest |
| 20h00 às 23h00 | Dinner | Local: Hotel |
DAY 5 (Friday), April, 8th
| 07h00 às 08h00 | Breakfast |
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| 08h00 - 13h00 Morning session | ||
| Epilepsy surgery / Spasticity Chairman Hamilton MATUSHITA | ||
| 08h00 às 08h20 | Refractory epilepsy: definitions, principles and algorithms, surgical candidates, patients’ selection | Kemel GOTME |
| 08h20 às 08h40 | Catastrophic epilepsy, hemispherectomy, hemispherotomies | Marcelo VOLPON |
| 08h40 às 09h00 | Temporal lobe epilepsy: surgical technique (surgical technique step-by-step, complications and their avoidance) | Ramiro DELRIO |
| 09h00 às 09h20 | Cortical Dysplasia | Luca MASSIMI |
| 09h20 às 09h40 | Role of Neuroimaging, functional imaging, SEEG in pediatric epilepsy surgery | Marcelo VOLPON |
| 09h40 às 10h00 | Tuberous sclerosis and epilepsy | Hamilton MATUSHITA |
| 10h00 às 10h30 | Break | |
| 10h30 às 10h50 | Dysembryoplastic Neuroepithelial Tumors: What You Need to Know. | Nelci ZANON |
| 10h50 às 11h10 | Sturge-Weber and epilepsy | Luca MASSIMI |
| 11h10 às 11h30 | Clinical case discussion | Nelci ZANON |
| Spasticity / Functional Chairman: Eduardo JUCÁ | ||
| 11h30 às 11h50 | Why and what a pediatric neurosurgeon needs to know to manage spasticity: definitions, principles and algorithms, surgical candidates, patients’ selection | Adrian CACERES |
| 11h50 às 12h10 | Selective Rhizotomy: technique, results, and complications | Ricardo GEPP |
| 12h10 às 12h30 | Pumps / non-ablative surgery How I do it: baclofen pumps – How I regulate them (detailed technique, tips and tricks) |
Eduardo JUCA |
| 12h30 às 13h00 | Discussion / Clinical cases | Marcelo VOLPON |
| 13h00 às 14h00 | Lunch | |
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14h00 - 19h00 Afternoon sessions Chairman: Sebastian JAIMOVICH |
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| 14h00 às 14h20 | DBS: principles, patients’ selection and surgical management | Sebastian JAIMOVICH |
| 14h20 às 14h40 | WHAT A PAEDIATRIC NEUROSURGEON NEEDS TO KNOW ON PERIPHERAL NERVE SURGERY | Ricardo GEPP |
| 14h40 às 15h00 | Discussion | |
| 15h00 às 15h10 | Pediatric meningioma | Group A (Trainee presentation) Tutor: Ricardo GEEP |
| 15h10 às 15h20 | Hypothalamic hamartomas | Group B (Trainee presentation) Tutor: Adrian CACERES |
| 15h20 às 15h30 | Pediatric cerebral cavernomas: clinical management and treatment | Group C (Trainee presentation) Tutor: Simone ROGERIO |
| 15h30 às 15h40 | Discussion | |
| 15h40 às 16h00 | Critical evaluation of the course | Ricardo Oliveira Eduardo Juca Simone Rogerio |
| Simultaneous rooms (break at room) |
16h00 às 19h00 - Vídeo Session / Solve a case [Group BLUE] Anatomy of the brain cortex, sulcus and girus / 3D anatomy |
Chairman: Feres CHADDAD Ramiro DEL RIO Sergio CAVALHEIRO Francisco SALOMÃO |
| 16h00 às 19h00 - Hands on (neuronavigation / new technologies/pumps/ shunts) [Group YELLOW] (Sponsored session) |
Chairman: Ricardo GEPP Marcelo VOLPON Sebastian JAIMOVICH Nelci ZANON |
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| 16h00 às 19h00 - SOLVE A CASE [Group GREEN] |
CHAIRS: Hamilton MATUSHITA Adrian CACERES Tatiana PROTZENKO Alvaro CORDOBA |
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| 20h00 às 23h30 | Dinner | Local: Hotel – closing ceremony |
DAY 6 (Saturday), April, 9th - Check-out
FACULTY LIST (20*)
Luca MASIMI
*Federico DIROCCO (ONLINE)
LATIN AMERICA
Adrian CACERES
Alvaro CORDOBA
Sebástian JAIMOVICH
Ramiro DEL RIO
Kemel GOTME
Ricardo OLIVEIRA
Eduardo JUCA
Simone ROGERIO
Ricardo GEPP
Marcelo VOLPON
Hamilton MATUSHITA
Francisco SALOMÃO
Sergio CAVALHEIRO
Feres CHADDAD
Tatiana PROTZENKO
Nelci ZANON
Patricia DASTOLI