Cleveland Spine Review: Hands-On 2018

Cleveland Spine Review: Hands-On 2018 is organized by Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education and will be held from Jul 10 - 17, 2018 at Cleveland Clinic - Lutheran Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event is Nurses, Advanced Practice Nurses, Physician Assistants, Physiatrists and other medical spine specialists have the unique opportunity to learn side by side, in didactic sessions as well as a cadaver laboratory, with surgeons in a relaxed, collegial atmosphere. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 65.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Course Description:
Cleveland Spine Review: Hands-On 2018 is a comprehensive course utilizing the cadaver laboratory and didactic sessions with ample time for discussion. This intensive course emphasizes the fundamentals of spine surgery, particularly biomechanical considerations, and the surgery decision-making process.

Through intensive, hands-on sessions utilizing cadavers, participants study surgical techniques and strategies for a range of procedures including occipitocervical, cervical, thoracic, and lumbar fixation techniques. Complex surgical exposures in all regions of the spine are emphasized.

Led by experienced faculty, the course examines the multiple adjuncts to surgery, including soft tissue and bone retractors and distractors, minimally invasive surgical techniques, spinal implants (from multiple vendors), and dissection tools. Non-operative strategies are also emphasized. Significant time is dedicated to operative indication discussions. The problem-based decision-making process is introduced and emphasized during these very interactive discussions.

Conference Objectives are :
Upon completion of the Cleveland Spine Review, the participant will be able to:
• Utilize problem-based decision-making to develop logical algorithms for solving complex problems.
• Employ physiological and surgical principles to spinal fusion and instrumentation.
• Apply anatomic and physiologic principles to the variety of surgical approaches available to access all regions of the spine.
• Recognize the fundamental skills required to perform the most appropriate operation for any given clinical pathology, and to recognize one’s own limitations in this regard.
• Evaluate available instrumentation systems and appreciate the advantages of each, as well as the relative indications for their use.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.