General Programme

16:00	REGISTRATION OPENS
17:00 - 18:00 PLENAY ROOM	OPENING CEREMONY 17:10 The abdominal wall surgery past : Antoni Gimbernat i Arbós and his work in his time Pere Mestres (20’) 17:30 The abdominal Wall Surgery future Amir Szold (20’)
18:00	WELCOME RECEPTION

08:30 – 10:00 AUDITORIUM	Inguinal hernia. There is currently a paradigm shift? Chairs: Maarten Simons, Reinhart Bittner Laparoendoscopic approach. Should be the first choice? Marc Miserez (10’) Anterior open approach. Should remain as the first choice? Joachim Conze (10’) Gender influences the choice of approach/technique? Shirin Towfigh (10’) Type of hernia influences the choice of approach/technique? Davide Lomanto (10’) Guidelines. Should we think in some gaps? Stavros Antoniou (10’)
08:30 – 10:00 ROOM F	Parastomal hernia repair Chairs: Ali Sheen, Pradeep Chowbey Laparoscopic modified Sugarbaker vs key-hole Bibi Hansson (10’) Robotic Sugarbaker vs retromuscular Filip Muysoms (10’) Incisional + parastomal hernia. Open solutions Eric Pauli (10’) Incisional + parastomal hernia. Robotic solutions Igor Beliansky (10’) Stoma relocation. When? Yuri Novitsky (10’) Paraileal conduit and paraileostomies hernias. Surgical options Eduardo Parra-Davila (10’)
08:30 – 10:00 ROOMS H3	Oral session 1
08:30 – 10:00 ROOMS H2	Oral session 2
10:00 – 10:30	COFFEE BREAK
10:30 – 12:00 AUDITORIUM	Component separation in complex AWR. When and How I do it Chairs: Hakan Kulacoglu, Jan Kukleta Anterior component separation – Endoscopic Retro-oblique CS. Lars Jorgensen (8’) Posterior component separation – Laparoscopic TAR. Salvador Morales Conde (8’) Posterior component separation – e-TEP Access for TAR Victor Radu (8’) Robotic TAR Conrad Ballecer (8’) Open TAR. Yuri Novitsky (8’) Open TAR. Madrid modification. Miguel Angel Garcia Ureña (8’) Anterior vs. Posterior: a critical analysis and physiopatologic impact. Juan Antonio Bellido (8’)
10:30 – 12:00 ROOM F	Complications of surgical repair of inguinal hernias Chairs: Robert Fitzgibbons, Francesco Corcione How to prevent complications in laparoendoscopic techniques? Maciej Pawlak (10’) How to prevent complications in open approach? David Chen (10’) How to deal with acute and chronic infections? Pilar Hernández Granados (10’) How to deal with inguinal chronic pain? Antonio Montes (10’) How to deal with laparoscopic recurrent inguinal hernia. Robot? Sergio Roll (10’)
10:30 – 12:00 ROOMS H3	Oral Session 3
10:30 – 12:00 ROOMS H2	Oral Session 4
12:00 - 13:00	LUNCH BREAK
12:15 – 13:45 AUDITORIUM	LUNCH Industry sponsored Symposium 1
12:15 – 13:45 ROOM F	LUNCH Industry sponsored Symposium 2
14:00 – 15:30 AUDITORIUM	Ventral/Incisional hernia. Patient’s Optimization. Compulsory? Chairs: Hobart Harris, Jan Kukleta Risk factors for complications and recurrences. Are apps useful? Vedra Augenstein (10’) How to manage obesity? Doron Kopelman (10’) How to prevent SSI? Ferdinando Agresta (10’) Concomitant dermolipectomy? When? Giampiero Campanelli (10’) Evidence for patient-related outcomes (PROMs) and indication to offer an elective repair in patients with a ventral. Thue Bisgaard (10’) Optimization. Should be ultimately compulsory? Todd Henniford (10’)
14:00 – 15:30 ROOM F	Ventral/Incisional Hernia. When, how and why I do it Chairs: Johanna Osterberg, Vlad Burdakov How many abdominal planes to place a mesh? ICAP Classification. Sam Parker (8’) Open onlay. David Sanders (8’) Open sublay. Joachim Conze (8’) IPOM. Ali Sheen (8’) LIRA. Julio Gomez Menchero (8’) MILOS. Wolfgang Reinpold (8’) Retromuscular intra-abdominal Access (TARUP). Filip Muysoms (8’) Retromuscular hybrid approach. Igor Belyansky (8’)
14:00 – 15:30 ROOM H3	Video Session 1
14:00 – 15:30 ROOM H2	Oral Session 5
15:30 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 AUDITORIUM	Learning and accreditation. Board of Abdominal Wall Chairs: David Sanders, Hans Jeekel Italian model. Cesare Stabilini (10’) German model. Ralph Lorenz (10’) Board of abdominal Wall (ACCESS group). Ferdinand Köckerling (10’) The EHS point of view. Wolfgang Reinpold (10’) Inequalities, current needs and the future of surgical education in Europe. Knut Borch (10’) Hernia surgery, should remain the “bread and butter” for the general surgeons? A point of view after a surgical career. Antonio Sitges-Serra (10’)
16:30 – 18:00 ROOM F	Inguinal hernia. How I do it? Chairs: Jan Kukleta, Davide Lomanto Giant inguinal hernia Agustin Alvarez (10’) Recurrent unilateral inguinal hernia after Lichtenstein and TEP Sergio Roll (10’) Inguinal hernia in cirrotic Child B patient Pablo Ortega Daballón (10’) Bilateral symptomatic inguinal hernia in a BMI 45 patient Guido Woeste (10’) Inguinal Hernia with deep infection after TAPP Gustavo Casta (10’) Recurrent bilateral symptomatic inguinal hernia. Right after TAPP and left after Lichtenstein Ramana Balasubramanian (10’) TEP repair with a robotic platform Aali Sheen (10’)
16:30 – 18:00 ROOM H3	EHS Rectus Diastasis Guidelines Chairs: Agneta Montgomery, Pilar Hernández Granados Speakers: Frederik Berrevoet Nadia A. Henriksen Diego Cucurullo David Ross TBD
16:30 – 18:00 ROOM H2	Oral Session 6

08:00 – 13:00 AUDITORIUM	LIVE SURGERY Chairs: Giampiero Campanelli
08:00 – 09:30 ROOM F	Real world evidence (Registries) in inguinal hernia. Is the same everywhere? Chairs: Johana Osterberg Epidemiology, Treatment, Complications and Recurrences. Danish Register Hans Friis Andersen (10’) Epidemiology, Treatment, Complications and Recurrences. Swedish register Agneta Montgomery (10’) Epidemiology, Treatment, Complications and Recurrences. Herniamed Ferdinand Köckerling (10’) Epidemiology, Treatment, Complications and Recurrences. Club Hernie Jean-Francois Guillion (10’)
09:30 – 11:00 ROOM F	Open and burst abdomen Chairs: Hakan Kulacoglu, Andreas Koch, Diego Cuccurullo When and how we have to use prostheses in open abdomen? Robert Schwab (10’) When and how we have to use prostheses in burst abdomen? Ulf Petersson (10’) Open abdomen registry Guidelines Uli Dietz (10’) EHS Guidelines Open / Burst Abdomen Frederik Berrevoet (10’) Enteroatmospheric fistula Fernando Ferreira (10’)
09:30 – 11:00 ROOM H3	Abdominal Wall Research Chairs: Maciej Smietanski, Yohann Renard Test methods for surgical meshes – an industry point of view. Boris Batke (12’) Incisional Hernia genesis. Mª Antonia Arbós (12’) Adhesives in abdominal wall repair. Gemma Pascual (12’) Liquid mesh experiment. Barbora East (12’) Problems in virtual reality simulation of the abdominal Wall. Toni Susin (12’) Different collagen synthesis for different materials, a new ex vivo model Vincenzo Trapani (12’) What remains to be done in abdominal wall anatomy research? Yohann Renard (12’)
09:30 – 11:00 ROOM H2	Oral Session 7
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 ROOM F	Real world evidence in the treatment of incisional hernia Chairs: Nadia Henriksen, Iris Kyle-Leinhase Epidemiology, Treatment, Complications and Recurrences. Spanish Register (EVEREG). José Antonio Pereira (10’) Epidemiology, Treatment, Complications and Recurrences. Danish register. Frederik Helgstrand (10’) Epidemiology, Treatment, Complications and Recurrences of Incisional hernias from the Swedish register. Peder Rogmark (10’) Epidemiology, Treatment, Complications and Recurrences. Herniamed Bernd Stechemasser (10’) Epidemiology, Treatment, Complications and Recurrences. Club Hernie TBD (10’) New EuraHS platform. Iris Kyle-Leinhase (10’) Where is the EuraHS going? Maarten Simons (10’)
11:30 - 13:00 ROOM H2	Oral Session 8
11:30 - 13:00 ROOM H3	Oral Session 9
13:00 – 14:00	LUNCH BREAK
13:15 – 14:45 AUDITORIUM	LUNCH Industry sponsored Symposium 3
13:15 – 14:45 ROOM F	LUNCH Industry sponsored Symposium 4
15:00 – 16:30 AUDITORIUM	Social media data and Academic journals in the dissemination of surgical knowledge. Publish or perish OR Post or perish? Chairs: Maciej Pawlak, Jose Maria Balibrea del Castillo The view from a journal editor Giampiero Campanelli (10’) The view from a journal editor and social media user Neil Smart (10’) The view from a IHC/Facebook Brian Jacob (10’) The view from SoMe4Surgey/Twitter Julio Mayol (10’) The view from a surgeon with interest in abdominal wall surgery Gina Adrales (10’) The view from EHS Andrew de Beaux (10’)
15:00 – 16:30 ROOM F	Incisional hernia prevention Chairs: Thijs Brandsma, Johannes Jeekel “Small bites” in elective surgery. Johan Frederik Lange (10’) Permanent Mesh in elective surgery. An Jairam (10’) Bioabsorbable mesh in prevention. PREBIOUS. Silvia Valverde (10’) Bundle of standardized measures for closing emergencies. Brita Tollstrup (10’) Results using a preventive mesh in emergencies. Alejandro Bravo (10’) From publication to practice. Much ado about nothing? William Hope (10’)
15:00 – 16:30 ROOM H3	Oral Session 10
15:00 – 16:30 ROOM H2	BEST VIDEO
16:30 – 17:00	COFFEE BREAK
17:00 – 18:30 AUDITORIUM	Ostomy related hernias prevention Chairs: Eduardo Molina, Ralph Lorenz Cipher trial. Neil Smart (9’) ROCCS trial. Tom Pinkney (9’) ILEOCLOSE. Borja Villanueva (9’) Parastomal hernia prevention. ROBIS analysis Josep Garcia-Alamino (9’) Long term results of paraestomal hernia prevention Montse Adell (9’) PREVENT trial long term follow up. Thijs Brandsma (9’) From publication to practice. Much ado about nothing? Hobart Harris (9’)
17:00 – 18:30 ROOM F	Hernia concomitant with other specialties in elective setting Chairs: Vincenzo Mandala, Tero Rautio, Linda D’Amore Incisional/Ventral/inguinal hernia and morbid obesity AW Surgeon point of view. Rene Fortelny (10’) Obesity Surgeon point of view. Amador Garcia Ruiz de Gordejuela (10’) Incisional/Ventral/Inguinal hernia and colon cancer AW Surgeon point of view. Benjamín Poulose (10’) Colorectal surgeon point of view. Eloi Espin (10’) Incisional/Ventral/Inguinal hernia and urologic surgery AW Surgeon point of view. Michel Scott (10’) Urologist point of view. Enrique Trilla (10’)
17:00 – 18:30 ROOM H3	BEST ORAL

10:00 – 12:00
ROOM H3

Workshop 1: Anatomy of the Abdominal Wall and Ultrasounds.
Organizers: Nuria Roson, Aleksandar Radosevic

Abdominal Wall Anatomy
Abdominal Wall Anatomy by ultrasounds
Abdominal Wall exam by CT. Tips and tricks.
Abdominal Wall exam by ultrasounds. Tips and tricks.
Practices (ultrasounds) with live models

10:00 – 11:30
ROOM H2

Workshop 2: Chronic inguinal pain
Organizers: Antonio Montes, Christian Dürsteler

Types of chronic inguinal pain
Evaluation
Mapping
Treatment algoriyhm

10:00 – 11:30
ROOM H1

Workshop 3: Basic laparoscopic technique
Organizer: TBD

Objectives:

10.00-10.30h	To know basics of Laparoscopic Inguinal hernia Repair and Mesh fixation. Tips and tricks. (video session) differences between open and laparoscopic suture changing the needle orientation and proper positioning in the needle holder tissue transfixion and suture manipulation knotting how to perform an endoscopic running suture – basic aspects
10.30-11.30h	Basic Laparoscopic Skills on suturing – “Hands-On session”

12:30
ROOM H3

CLOSING CEREMONY