Ed Benzel Cleveland Spine Review: Hands-On 2025

Ed Benzel Cleveland Spine Review: Hands-On 2025 is organized by Cleveland Clinic and will be held from Jul 23 - 28, 2025 at Lectures and Labs - Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America.

Overview:
Ed Benzel Cleveland Spine Review: Hands-On 2025 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. 

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.