Programme:

08:00 – 08:15 Come together
08:15 – 08:45 Organisers – Welcome address (Gregor Kunst, Jurij Gorjanc)
08:45 – 09:00 Organisers – Welcome speech (EHS representative) (Cesare Stabilini)
09:00- 09:15 Minimally Invasive APPROACH: Indications and guidelines (Cesare Stabilini)
09:15 – 09:30 Lap IPOM, lap IPOM plus: a  dying-out technique or a method being reborn ? (Rudolf Schrittwieser)
09:30 – 09:40 MILOS, e-MILOS: Is it universal because it is born from sublay and anybody can do it ? (Jurij Gorjanc)
09:40 – 09:55 Lap eTEP  – is it too difficult for an »average«  laparoscopic surgeon? (Victor Radu)
09:55 – 10:05 EaLAR: Which are good indications and how to do it ? (Ferdinand Köckerling)
10:05 – 10:20 THT (Tomaž Jakomin)
10:20 – 10:30 Which approach is the best according to Herniamed registry – (Ferdinand Köckerling)
10:30 – 11:00 Discussion
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 11:45 ROBOTIC APPROACH: Indications and guidelines ( Cesare Stabilini)
11:45 – 12:00 rTAPP – a robotic start-up operation for ventral hernias ? (Andraž Hubad)
12:00 – 12:15 Robotic Retromuscular Repair for Ventral Hernia (Umberto Bracale)
12:15 – 12:30 Robotic Component Separation (David Chen)
12:30 – 12:40 How to close abdominal wall correctly to avoid hernias (Rene Fortelny)
12:40 – 12:50 What about rectus diastasis (Jan Kukleta)
12:50 – 13:00 Can we avoid component separation (Botulinum toxin A, Intraoperative fascial traction, Pneumoperitoneum) (Jan Kukleta)
13:00 – 13:30 Discussion
13:30 – 15:00 LUNCH
15:00 – 16:00 Analysis, Feedback