Maximum of 6 attendees per workshop to assure adequate hands-on opportunity for all attendees
5-6 Live surgery cases per workshop
Breast Augmentation procedures is also known as enlargement - augmentation mammoplasty. Patients seeking an augmentation are usually dissatisfied with their breast size. This procedure will help correct the volume size of each breast; however, it will not change any defect of the breast shape or form. Breast Augmentation surgery is done under general or local anesthesia and usually on an outpatient basis.
Office-based Awake Breast Augmentation workshop learning objectives:
1 . Attendees will scrub in for surgical procedures.
2 . Summarize the clinical aspects to the procedure, including patient selection, safe dosing limits of lidocaine in tumescent anesthesia, and proper
surgical methods & techniques.
3 . Integrate the procedure into the existing physician's office setting from a clinical and marketing standpoint.
4 . Present the most efficient layout in a facility to perform the procedure.
5 . Calculate the start-up costs and instrument set-up for the procedure.
6 . Define issues of medical malpractice an dhow it relates the physicians.
7 . Assess the financial benefit of the fee-for-service awake tummy tuck workshop.
8 . Recite effective methods to manage patients dissatisfied or challenging.
9 . Recognize lidocaine side effects and post-operative complications.
Course Outline
Day One
7:30 – 8:30 am Breakfast & Registration
8:30 – 9:30 am Lecture of Breast Augmentation/Powerpoint presentation
1. Patient Selection
2. Preoperative & Postoperative Photography
3. Tumescent Anesthesia Preparation
4. Patient Preparation and Nursing Protocols
5. Technique of Tumescent Anesthesia Infiltration
6. Lidocaine Side Effects
7. Anatomy
8. Implants
9. Measurements
9:30 – 12:00 pm Live Surgery #1
12:00 – 12:30pm Lunch (questions & answers)
12:30 – 3:00 pm Live Surgery #2
3:00 – 5:30 pm Live Surgery #3
5:30 – 6:30 pm Questions & Answers
6:30 pm Adjourn
Day Two
7:30 – 8:00 am Breakfast & Registration
8:00 – 9:00 am Lecture of Breast Augmentation/Powerpoint presentation