• Lecture Session I | 08:00 – 12:30

  • Venue: Josephinum Medical Museum, Vienna

  • Registration: 07:30 – 08:00

  • 08:00 – 08:05
    Course opening and welcome
    David Liu / Faris Brkic (Vienna)

  • 08:05 – 08:15
    Course organization, objectives and workflow
    David Liu / Faris Brkic (Vienna)

  • 08:15 – 08:30
    Surgical setup and instrumentation in endoscopic sinus surgery
    Faris Brkic (Vienna)

  • 08:30 – 08:45
    Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS): tips and tricks
    David Liu / Faris Brkic (Vienna)

  • 08:45 – 09:15
    Step-by-step basic sinus surgery and relevant anatomy
    Rajiv Bhalla (Manchester)

• Coffee Break | 09:15 – 09:30

• Lectures | 09:30 – 11:20

  • 09:30 – 10:00
    Frontal sinus surgery: principles and techniques
    Noel Ayoub (Stanford)

  • 10:00 – 10:15
    Management of acute epistaxis and sphenopalatine artery ligation
    Johannes Hochstöger (Linz)

  • 10:15 – 10:45
    Endoscopic orbital surgery/dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR): indications and techniques
    Noel Ayoub (Stanford)

  • 10:45 – 11:15
    Complications of functional endoscopic sinus surgery
    Archana Jaiswal (Manchester)

• Lunch Break | 11:20 – 12:00

• Hands-on Dissection Session | 12:30 – 15:30

  • Venue: Institute of Anatomy, Medical University of Vienna

  • Practical training objectives:

    1. Maxillary antrostomy

    2. Ethmoidectomy

    3. Sphenoidotomy

    4. Optional frontal sinus surgery (Day 2)

• Lecture Session II | 16:00 – 18:00

  • Venue: Josephinum Medical Museum

• Coffee Break: 16:00 – 16:30

• Lectures | 16:30 – 18:00

  • 16:30 – 17:00
    Extended frontal sinus surgery: Draf IIb and Draf III procedures
    Archana Jaiswal (Manchester)

  • 17:00 – 17:30
    The pterygopalatine fossa and internal maxillary artery: surgical anatomy and approaches
    David Liu (Vienna)

  • 17:30 – 18:00
    Role of biologics in chronic rhinosinusitis and sinus surgery
    Alexandros Andrianakis (Graz)

• Social Gathering: 19:00

 Hands-on Dissection Session | 09:00 – 15:00

• • Venue: Institute of Anatomy, Medical University of Vienna

  • Advanced surgical techniques:

    • Orbital approaches and Dacrocystorhinostomy

    • Frontal sinus surgery

    • Frontal sinus drill-out

    • Optional vidian nerve neurectomy

    • Optional skull base approaches

    • Optional PPF approaches