Program Overview

08:00-09:00 am:
Session 1: Medical Stone Management

  • Investigation of Stone Patients (inc biochem, imaging & F/U), Kunji Wang
  • Evidence for Medical Management, Eddie Chan
  • Special scenarios (Cystinuria, Uric Acid), Adrian Joyce
  • The current status of SWL and how to improve its outcomes, Anthony Ng

09:00-10:00 am:
Session 2: Ureteroscopy
  • Preoperative Considerations, Alan Lo
  • Equipment & devices
    • Scopes & wires, Lysander Chau
    • Lithotripsy devices, Adrian Joyce
  • All presentations to include short sequence videos to illustrate points of technique

10:00-10:30 am:
COFEE BREAK

10:30-11:30 am:
Session 3: Ureteroscopic Adjuncts
  • Role of Wires & Baskets, Anthony Ng
  • Role of Access Sheaths, Alan Lo
  • Role of stents, Lysander Chau
  • Tips & Tricks – Problem Solving, Adrian Joyce
11:30-12:30 am:
Session 4: Ureteroscopic Access
  • Technique 1 - Insertion of semirigid scope, Anthony Ng
  • Technique 2 - Insertion of flex ureteroscope, Kunji Wang
  • Post-Op care & F/U, Eddie Chan
  • Special situations – Paediatrics & Pregnancy, Adrian Joyce

12:30-01:30 pm:
LUNCH BREAK

01:30-02:30 pm:
Session 5: Case Selection
  • Role of antibiotics in Endourology – ICUD Consensus, Adrian Joyce
  • Indications for PCNL, Kunji Wang
  • Role of imageing, Anthony Ng
  • Clinical Case scenario, Eddie Chan
02:30-03:30 pm:
Session 6: PCNL Planning & Approach
  • Operating Room Planning, Alan Lo
  • Equipment, Lysander Chau
  • Prone vs Supine
  • Lithotripsy devices, Adrian Joyce
04:30-05:30 pm:
Session 7: Technique of Access
  • USS vs Fluoroscopy, Lysander Chau
  • Triangulation technique, Kunji Wang
  • Nephroscopy, Anthony Ng
  • Tips & tricks   
05:30-06:30 pm:
Session 8
  • Role of Mini/micro PCNL, Anthony Ng
  • Role of Drainage vs Tubeless,  Eddie Chan
  • Management/Prevention of Complications, Adrian Joyce
08:00-11:00 am:
Hands-On-Training – Ureteroscopy
  

Session 1(1/2hr): semirigid & flex ureteroscope – basic use & damage prevention
Session 2 (1 hr): Semirigid Ureteroscopy Skills
Session 3 (1 hr): Flexible Ureteroscopy skills 
Session 4 (1/2 hr): Intra-corporeal Lithotripsy:
  • Lithoclast
  • Ho Laser fragmentation
  • Role of anti-retropulsion devices
11:00-11:30 am:  COFFEE BREAK
  
11:30-12:30 am: Clinical Cases Discussion
  • Calyceal stone
  • Large proximal ureteric stone
  • Ureteric stone in pregnancy
  • Stone in Pelvic Kidney
  • 2 cm stone and UPJO
  • Ureteric stone & previous retroperitoneal surgery 
12:30-01:30 pm:
LUNCH BREAK
    
01:30-04:30 pm:
Hands-On-Training
    

Session 1: PCNL Equipment & OR set up
   
Session 2: Obtain Access on Models – Inanimate & Animate
   
Session 3: Access in Live Porcine Model
  
04:30-05:30 pm: Clinical cases discussion relating to PCNL