Abstract
During the three-day course the morning theoretical lessons were performed to explaining the surgical procedures step by step, followed by afternoon preparations, subsequently supplemented by clinical lectures and demonstration operations. In the introduction the basics of the anatomy and physiology of the temporal bone and terminology of the ear surgery were mentioned.
In the practical part of the course the basic tools, microscopes, drills and otologic instrumentation was introduced. The training was performed on cadavers fixed by plastination techniques which preserves the tissues of their natural properties, arterial circulation is fixed red and venous blue silicone.
The trainees during the three days tried antrotomy, antromastoidectomy, canal wall up and canal wall down mastoidectomy, posterior tympanotomy, osiculoplasty (Kurz) stapedotomy, meatoplasty, canalplasty, the closure of the external auditory canal (cul de sac), cochlear implant (cochlear Aima) subtotal petrosectomy, labyrintektomy, decompression and transposition of the facial nerve and infratemporal fossa approach type A. There were 10 workstations equipped with an operating microscope Zeiss, cutter Surgipa and Medtronic and Karl Storz surgical instruments.
At one workplace alternated two trainees and one nurse and Lecturer supervised them during the course and cycled between each site.