3rd HEAD AND NECK SURGERY COURSE, TOTALLY IN 3D – 2020

Dear Colleagues,
with great pleasure we introduce this third Head and Neck Surgery Course, presented entirely in 3D. This powerful technological development in many fields of surgery is undoubtedly influencing not so much the
surgical procedure itself but the way we perform as surgeons today.
Greater attention to detail, minimal invasiveness, full sharing of all phases of the operation, video tutoring of colleagues in training: these and other aspects represent the everyday reality in many operating rooms.
Moreover, what happens in the operating field can now be filmed and reviewed in 4K and 3D technology, i.e. maximum video fidelity coupled with a depth of field that in the past only the first surgeon could have.
“Better than Live” is a slogan but also represents a real challenge: its aims are not just filming and showing surgery better than ever before, but also demonstrating how the procedure execution under the control of 3D
monitors can produce a decisive increase in minimally invasive procedures in a short time.
The third course will feature an important novelty: the scientific twinning of two National Academic realities in the tribute due to the respective former Chairs. Two main topics will be focused on: Salivary glands pathology and Laryngeal cancer. Both are fields in rapid and continuous evolution, where bio-molecular, technologic and therapeutic improvements are leading to interest innovations in their daily management; but are also surgical fields where the extreme refinement of the procedures will exalt the characteristics of 3D broadcast.
All types of approach, conventional, mini-invasive, robotic and robotic-like ones will be carried out by the Italian and the International Faculty. The formula is simple: two simultaneous live surgery sessions from the operating rooms, video-sessions with recorded contributions, frontal lectures and tumor board case discussion. In parallel a robotic and roboticlike cadaveric dissection will be carried out. The delegates will be so able to observe the same procedures from the O.R. and Cadaver Lab assessing advantages and disadvantages of the different techniques.
The international Faculty is composed of greatly experienced surgeons at a very detailed level.
A warm welcome to them from our scientific community! We hope to see you in Turin next February.

Giovanni Succo, MD | Piero Nicolai, MD