Staple it Right Friday 23rd May 2025

Available for University Hospitals Tees staff only

Event details

  • Date: 23 May 2025
  • Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
  • Address: Room 1, STRIVE Academic Centre, James Cook University Hospital

Booking is closed for this event

Course Overview

This event is to provide training for safe and efficient ways of using different staples for bowel anastomosis.

Learning outcomes:

  • Identify the key components and assembling of surgical staplers (linear and circular, mechanised and non-mechanised)
  • List the indications, contraindications and types of stapled bowel anastomoses.
  • Perform a safe and functional end-to-end anastomosis, side-to-side anastomosis using a vast array of circular, linear staplers along with intracorporeal vs extracorporeal anastomosis.
  • Identify the various issues with staplers, including misfiring, troubleshooting, selecting type, size of stapler for various scenarios.

Target audience:

The target candidates are CT1/CT2, ST3 trainees and above.

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For further information about this course, please email: [email protected]

Cancellations:

All cancellations need to be made through your account. For those who do not attend without cancellation, your line manager will be notified and a possible charge may be incurred.