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Improving Treatment Outcomes & Managing Patient Expectations in Spine Surgery

Program | Friday, September 05th

08.00 - 08.30

Check-in, Welcome Coffee & Exhibition

08.30 - 08.45

Welcome

PD Dr. med. Cordula Netzer MBA (President)
PD Dr. med. Pietro Scarone (Co-Host)

08.45 - 10.05

Pre-habilitation and Preparation of the Patient

Chairs: Pietro Scarone, Markus Loibl

08.45 - 09.05

Podium-Discussion
Case - Expert talks - Case Solution
Dr. med. Ramona Guatta
PD Dr. med. Pietro Scarone
Prof. Dr. Madelon Peters
Prof. Dr. med. Oliver Nic Hausmann
Prof. Mari Lundberg

09.05 - 09.25

Why Psychosomatics Matters!
Prof. Dr. Madelon Peters

09.25 - 09.45

Why Patient Preparation Matters!
Prof. Dr. med. Oliver Nic Hausmann

09.45 - 10.05

Why Physiotherapy Matters!
Prof. Mari Lundberg

10.05 - 10.35

Coffee Break & Exhibition

10.35 - 11.35

Free Communications Clinical Research

Chairs: Fabrice Külling, Marco Germann

  • 10.37 Bone Health Optimization Before Spine Fusion: A Targeted Review of Evidence-Based Preoperative Strategies (F. Mozaffari)
  • 10.43 Influence of frailty on clinical and radiological outcomes in patients undergoing transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion– analysis of a controlled cohort of 408 patients (Y. Yildiz)
  • 10.49 Complication Rates and Reversal Strategies in Emergency Spine Surgery for Patients on Oral Factor Xa Inhibitors: A Systematic Review of the Last 10 Years (F. Mozaffari)
  • 10.55 The Swiss National Spinal Implant Registry (SIRIS Spine): Framework and Initial Insights (T. Jentzsch)
  • 11.01 Spinal Cord Injury in Severely Injured Patients: Results from the Swiss Trauma Registry (N. Hejrati)
  • 11.07 External Validation of the Timed Up and Go (TUG) Test in Spinal Tumor Patients – First results from the Swiss Spinal Tumor Register (Swiss-STR) (O. K. Kemp)
  • 11.13 Surgical Treatment of Recurrent Lumbar Disc Herniation: To Fuse or not to Fuse? A Single-Center Analysis of clinical and radiological Characteristics and Surgical Outcomes of 450 patients (G. Fischer)
  • 11.19 Outcome of Lumbar Fusion with Template Guided Cortical Bone Trajectory Versus Traditional Pedicle Screw Trajectory – a Randomized Prospective Trial (J.M. Spirig)
  • 11.25 Osteolysis After Cervical Disc Arthroplasty: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Validation of a Novel CT-Based Grading Scale (S. Häckel)
  • 11.31 ALIF’s impact on sexual function, a retrospective comparative cohort study (M. Mattia)
11.35 - 12.35

SGS General Assembly

For SGS members only

12.35 - 13.35

Lunch Break & Exhibition

12.40 - 13.25

Escape Game by Medtronic

Prior online registration required for the Escape Game

12.55 - 13.25

Lunch Symposium by Nexon Medical AG & OrthoContor GmbH

Redefining Fusion - The Science, Evidence and Practice of MagnetOs: Osteoinductive Synthetic Bone Graft

  • Mechanisms of action and properties of an osteoinductive ceramic bone substitute (MagnetOs) - PhD Luuk van Dijk
  • MagnetOs: real-world experience and clinical applications with an osteoinductive bone substitute - PD Dr. med. Sebastian Bigdon
13.35 - 14.05

From Earth to Heaven:
A Quest for Equilibrium between Philosophy and Art

Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni
(Università della Svizzera Italiana, Vice Decano & Professore Ordinario)

Prof. Alessandro Tosi
(University of Pisa, Director of the Museo della Grafica)

14.05 - 15.35

AO Spine Symposium: Intradural lesions - Advanced Symposium

Chairs: Ralph Schär, Enrico Tessitore

14.05 - 14.15

AO Spine Knowledge Forum Tumor: Insights and Activities
PD Dr. med. Cordula Netzer MBA

14.15 - 14.35

Intradural Lesions for Non-Intradural Experts:
An Overview
PD Dr. med. David Bellut

14.35 - 14.55

Intradural Intramedullary Lesions Watch Versus Biopsy Versus Resect
Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Raabe

14.55 - 15.15

Intradural Extramedullary Lesions Watch Versus Biopsy Versus Resect
Prof. Dr. Florian Ringel

15.15 - 15.35

The Role of SBRT/SRS in the Treatment of Intradural Lesions
Prof. Matthias Guckenberger, MD

15.35 - 16.05

Coffee Break & Exhibition

16.05 - 17.15

Endorsed by EUROSPINE:
Prevention of Iatrogenic Deformity in Short Lumbar Fusions

Chairs: Pedro Berjano, Yann Philippe Charles

16.05 - 16.25

Lumbar Degenerative Sagittal Deformity and State of the Art Surgery
Dr. Clément Silvestre

16.25 - 16.50

Optimizing Sagittal Profile in Idiopathic Scoliosis
Dr. Yann Philippe Charles MD, PhD

16.50 - 17.15

MIS approaches for restoring lordosis. How to avoid iatrogenic deformity with MIS
Dr. Pedro Berjano

17.15 - 17.25

Scientific Award Ceremony

Chairs: Cordula Netzer, Pietro Scarone

17.25 - 17.30

Closing Remarks & Farewell

PD Dr. med. Cordula Netzer MBA (President)
Prof. Dr. med. Oliver Nic Hausmann (President-Elect)
PD Dr. med. Pietro Scarone (Co-Host)

to the program of Thursday, September 04th