MAIN TOPICS
New findings in basic knowledge of the spine and spinal cord: biology, biomechanics, cell and 3D technologies, materials.
Injury of the spine and spinal cord:
- Changes in classifications and treatment tactics, the role and place of MIS technologies;
- Problems of providing urgent care and the results of early operations in patients with SCI;
- Spinal injury in children and elderly patients.
Degenerative spine diseases:
- Minimally invasive technologies in pain management for young and old patients;
- Surgery of stable stenosis and unstable spondylolisthesis;
- New technologies of decompression and spinal fusion;
- Experience and results of dynamic stabilization and disk arthroplasty.
Сhildren's spinal deformities:
- Problems of conservative and surgical treatment of severe and rapidly progressive deformities in young children;
- Selective rigid or dynamic correction of idiopathic scoliosis;
- New findings in the surgery of "growing" kyphoscoliosis and dysplastic spondylolisthesis;
- Safety issues and ways to reduce intraoperative trauma during major interventions in children.
Adults spinal deformities:
- Static and dynamic balance of the spine: from theory to practical application;
- Dorsal or ventral correction of sagittal imbalance: difficult or easy choice?;
- Post-traumatic and iatrogenic spinal deformities;
- Idiopathic and degenerative scoliosis in adults: do and don’ts;
- Preoperative planning and real results of corrections;
- Problems and strategies of revisional surgery.
Tumors of the spine and spinal cord.
Osteoporosis problems in spine surgery and ways to overcome them:
- Treatment of high energy trauma in osteoporotic patients;
- Spinal fixation in osteoporosis;
- Preoperative preparation and postoperative management of patients with osteoporosis.
New findings in diagnostics, planning and intraoperative imaging:
- Present and future of spinal navigation: availability, accuracy, cost-effectiveness (navigation + surgeon, robot, 3D printing, VR / AR).
Complications in spine surgery. Failed back surgery syndrome. Problems of repeated and revisional interventions.
Medical care management, science and education:
- Solutions proposed by the industry - advantages and disadvantages of the Russian Healthcare system;
- Outpatient spine surgery: global achievements and perspectives in the Russian Federation;
- Federal registry and clinical guidelines as the basis for multicenter studies in spinal surgery;
- Learning curve in spine surgery: how to reduce risks for patients and physicians;
- Distance and simulation technologies in the training of spine surgeons;
- RASS: the reason to become a member of the association?