📍 Venue: The Endocrine & Thyroid Clinic, Reggio Emilia, Italy
🗓️ Date: July 27-28, 2023 / October 26-27, 2023 / December 7-8, 2023
RATIONALE AND AIMS
This is an overview course that will summarize and introduce radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for use in the management of Thyroid Benign and Malignant Nodules.
This two-day course includes both theoretical and practical sessions where participants will be able to test the technology using a phantom model in between live case observations.
Course Objectives
- Review thyroid ultrasonography, Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC), Core Needle Biopsy (CNB)
- Understand the principles of thermal ablation and RFA
- Identify current indications of thermal ablation and RFA
- Know and prevent thermal ablation side effects
- Describe the procedure setup
- Employ the proper ablation technique on a phantom
- Closely observe RFA procedure model
- Explore new indications of thermal ablation and RFA
This is course is reserved to TNT Association members: TNT Association membership is required for attending the course
Registration Rate € 2,850,00 (VAT not included – No VAT is chargeable for this educational activity of the TNT no-profit Association)
Secretariat: Benedetta Ricci Valcavi, benedetta.valcavi@gmail.com
Phone/WhatsApp + 39 388 811 6645
The registration rate includes:
- Participation in the professional RFA training course
- Educational material
- Meals and social dinner
The registration rates does not include:
- Travel and overnight stays
- Transports to/from airports; to/from raiway stations
- Application for TNT association
Participants: maximum 4
A participation certificate will be issued after completion of the course
Cancellation Policies
For cancellations within 60 days of the event, no fee will be charged; for cancellations within 30 days before the event, 50% of the amount will be withheld; from 20 days before the event, no refund will be provided.
PROGRAM AT-A-GLANCE
LECTURES
OBSERVATION & HANDS-ON PRACTICE
Tutor: Dr. Roberto Valcavi.
Operating Room Nurse: Gianluca Croci
PROGRAM OF THE COURSE
DAY 1 (THURSDAY)
9:00 -10:30 am – Lectures – Roberto Valcavi
9:00 am
- Introduction to the Course
- Ultrasound Evaluation of Thyroid Nodules
- Thyroid FNAC and CNB
10:30 am Break
Diagnostic Procedures – Roberto Valcavi & Gianluca Croci
10:45 – 1:30
- Thyroid FNAC & CNB – Close Vision
1:30 – 2:45 pm: Lunch
2:45 – 4:30 pm: Hands-on Practice – Roberto Valcavi & Gianluca Croci
- FNAC and CNB: Exercises on Phantom
4:30 pm Break
4:45 – 5:30 Lecture – Roberto Valcavi
- Thyroid Ablation: The State-Of-The-Art
End of Day 1
DAY 2 (FRIDAY)
9:00 am – 1:30 pm: Thyroid RFA Procedures – Close Vision – Roberto Valcavi & Gianluca Croci
11:00 am – Lecture– Roberto Valcavi
- Ethanol and thermal ablation
1:30 pm: Lunch
2:45 – 4:30 pm: Hands-on Practice – RFA Exercises on Phantom
4:45 Lectures – Roberto Valcavi
- Side effects of thermal ablation procedures
- Thyroid microcarcinoma ablation
- End of course
8:00 pm: Social Dinner
