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AWAKE Liposuction Workshop
Course Dates:
July 24-25, 2009
August 14-15, 2009
Course Location:
The Cosmetic Surgery Center of Ohio
85 McNaughten Road
Columbus OH 43213
Course Fee: $4,995.00
Course Directors:
Dexter Blome, MD, PhD
21.5 Hours AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Course Outline
DAY ONE
7:30 – 8:00 am
Registration, Welcome, and Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:10 am
History
of the procedure “How it got started and by whom!”
8:10 – 8:20 am
The Overview: Office base liposuction using local tumescent
anesthesia
8:20 – 8:30 am
Anatomy review “Break it down”
8:30 – 8:40 am
Identifying potential patients, consent & exam
8:40 – 9:00 am
Patient preparation & preoperative medications
9:00 – 9:20 am
Patient markings – fat deposits (topography format)
9:20 – 9:30 am
Local tumescent anesthesia preparation
9:30 – 9:40 am
Identifying
safe limits of lidocaine & side effects
9:40 – 9:50 am
Keys to pre/post operative photography
9:50 – 10:00 am
Morning break (food & drink available)
10:00 – 10:15 am
Room set-up, instrument selection & layout, and surgical
dressing
10:15 – 10:30am
Infiltration methods of infusing local tumescent anesthesia
using infiltration cannulas or spinal needles
10:30 – 1:00pm
First case of live surgery on female upper and lower abdomen,
waist & back
1:00 – 1:15 pm
Recovery, post operative treatment, and post operative wrapping
of patient
1:15 – 2:00 pm
Lunch
in Conference Room, with discussion of post operative care, post
operative problems, outcomes and patient satisfaction, handling
of dissatisfied patients
2:00:
– 5:30 pm
Second live
surgery of
upper & lower abdomen and waist
5:30 – 6:00 pm
Overall review, question and answer session
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Dinner
with faculty and nursing staff at local restaurant
DAY TWO
7:00 – 7:30 am
Continental Breakfast
7:30 – 7:40 am
Malpractice Considerations
7:40 – 7:50 am
Business model for implementing liposuction into your practice
7:50 – 8:00 am
Marketing this cosmetic procedure into your practice both
internally & externally
8:00 – 8:10 am
Establishing a fee schedule for the procedure
8:10 – 8:20 pm
Discussing physical space requirements: ideal set-up for your
liposuction suite
8:20 – 8:30 pm
Instrument selection and O/R set-up, costs of getting started
8:30 – 12:30 pm
Hands-On
Training for Beginning Liposuction Case on Female Abdomen, Waist
and Back
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Lunch in Conference Room, with discussion of 2006 Liposuction
Guidelines, AAAHC accreditation, and Performance Measurement
Studies
1:30 – 5:30 pm
2nd
Hands-On Training Case on Female Abdomen, Waist & Back
5:30 – 6:00 pm
Overall review, question and answer session
6:00 pm
Adjourn
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