LIDO Masterclass 2024

LIDO Masterclass 2024 is organized by European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) and will be held from Oct 14 - 16, 2024 at Erasmus MC SkillsLab, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.

Note: The 2024 edition of the LiDO will be held in a blended format, combining online preparatory activities and a 3-day in person programme to be held in Rotterdam from 14 to 16 October.

Description:
LiDO is a world-renowned and well-established hands-on masterclass on live donor nephrectomy designed according to education-on-demand principles.

The 2024 edition of LiDO will take place in a blended format, combining preparatory online activities that participants can fit into their own schedule, and a dynamic and interactive 3-day in-person programme – to be held in Rotterdam, from 14 to 16 October – with a focus on hands-on operating sessions (utilising unique human corpses), where participants are mentored by internationally recognised leaders in the field in a state-of-the-art Skills Lab facility within a leading European transplant unit.

Online activities include lectures, readings, and self-assessment quizzes. In- person activities include short interactive theoretical and practical lectures on living donation and various operation techniques, including tips and tricks for live donor nephrectomy. But the majority of the in-person event is dedicated to the hands-on sessions, where multiple techniques of live donor nephrectomy can be practised.

The last day of the course is dedicated to moderate live surgery cases, during which participants can see various live donor nephrectomy techniques applied in clinical practice in parallel, and a robot-assisted live donor kidney transplantation can be witnessed.

Objectives:
By taking this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain the differences in the various live donor nephrectomy techniques including their pros and cons, and
• How they can be applied in a tailor-made fashion
• Describe the technical details of every step of the live donor nephrectomy
• Robot-assisted live donor nephrectomy and robot-assisted kidney transplantation
• Compare the different techniques applied in real living donors with reflections on their own hands-on experiences in the skills lab.