Event Location
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee , United States
Event Dates
20 Oct 2022 - 21 Oct 2022
Event Website
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/86th-annual-temporal-bone-course-tickets-333071966217
Event Cost
The 86th Annual Temporal Bone Course led by The Otology Group at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is a 2-day, in-person course on VUMC’s campus that combines a didactic lecture series with hands-on dissection lab training.
Directed by: Elizabeth Perkins, MD and David Haynes, MD, FACS, MMHC
Lecture Topics:
- Anatomy of the temporal bone
- Surgery for chronic ear disease
- Cochlear implants
- Management of sudden sensorineural hearing loss
- Image-guided surgery in otology
- Advanced radiology techniques in otology
- Osseointegrated implants
- Audiology and vestibular diagnostic techniques
- Ossicular reconstruction
- Stapedectomy
- Management of acoustic tumors
- Surgery for vertigo
- Skull base approaches to the temporal bone
- Endoscopic ear surgery
Procedures to be Demonstrated/Performed:
- Intact canal with mastoidectomy
- Facial recess and extended facial recess
- Endolymphatic sac decompression
- Facial nerve identification
- Canal wall down mastoidectomy
- Labyrinthectomy
- Middle cranial fossa approach
- Translabyrinthine approach to the skull base
- Transcochlear approach to the skull base
- BAHA implant techniques