Course 2025

Bariatric Module Program

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Saturday, April 5 2025

 10:00

Opening of the registration and the administrative office
Format Organisation
Course Advanced Bariatric
Advanced Colorectal
Advanced HPB
Emergency & Acute Care Surgery
 11:00

Start Advanced Course Bariatric Module
Room
Flüela
Format Lecture
Course Advanced Bariatric
Ralph Peterli, Basel CH; Urs Pfefferkorn, Olten CH
11:15 – 12:30

Lecture I
Room
Flüela
Format Lecture
Course Advanced Bariatric
Ralph Peterli, Basel CH; Urs Pfefferkorn, Olten CH

Introduction of faculty & participants

Urs Pfefferkorn, Olten CH

Historic bariatric operations and today’s problems of patients who underwent them

Paulina Salminen, Turku FI

Mechanisms behind obesity and bariatric-metabolic surgery

Ralph Peterli, Basel CH

Medical therapies for obesity, pre – and postoperative

Marloes Emous, Leeuwarden NL
12:45 – 13:45

Lunch
Format Break
Course Advanced Bariatric
Advanced Colorectal
Advanced HPB
Emergency & Acute Care Surgery
 13:45

Davos Course Opening
Room
Hall Davos
Format General
Course Basic
Intermediate
Advanced Bariatric
Advanced Colorectal
Advanced HPB
Pediatric Surgery
Emergency & Acute Care Surgery
Walter Brunner, St. Gallen CH; Lana Fourie, Luzern CH
14:15 – 16:00

Practical exercises I
Room
Seehorn
Format Practical Exercise
Course Advanced Bariatric
Urs Pfefferkorn, Olten CH; Ralph Peterli, Basel CH

Tissue dissection
Vessel handling
Management of bleeding

Charlotte Rabl, Salzburg AT; Dieter Birk, Bietigheim DE; Jose Balibrea, Barcelona ES; Mirko Otto, Mannheim DE; Dimitrios Pournaras, Bristol GB; Moritz Felsenreich, Vienna AT

Single stitch suture with intraperitoneal knotting

Jose Balibrea, Barcelona ES; Dieter Birk, Bietigheim DE; Moritz Felsenreich, Vienna AT; Dimitrios Pournaras, Bristol GB; Charlotte Rabl, Salzburg AT
16:00 – 16:30

Break

Coffee and sweets (trade exhibition)
Format Break
Course Advanced Bariatric
Advanced Colorectal
Advanced HPB
16:30 – 18:30

Lecture II
Room
Flüela
Format Lecture
Course Advanced Bariatric
Mirko Otto, Mannheim DE; Jose Balibrea, Barcelona ES

What´s needed before bariatric-metabolic surgery & preoperative assessment​​​​​​​​​

Charlotte Rabl, Salzburg AT

Video: RYGB Step-by-Step

Jose Balibrea, Barcelona ES

Video: OAGB Step-by-Step

Charlotte Rabl, Salzburg AT

Video: Gastric sleeve resection Step-by- Step

Ralph Peterli, Basel CH

Discussion technical details all procedures

Interactive Session: Metabolic Surgery vs. Medication

Mirko Otto, Mannheim DE
 18:45

Special Lecture & Welcome Reception
Room
Hall Davos
Format Special
Course Basic
Intermediate
Advanced Bariatric
Advanced Colorectal
Advanced HPB
Pediatric Surgery
Emergency & Acute Care Surgery