Overview

A very successful 1st ICSSG was held in New York City last October 2007, where 325 participants from 32 countries exchanged on recent progress made in laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. This was the first meeting of its kind in discussing LSG as a primary bariatric procedure.

Excerpted from the American College of Surgeons Position Statement on Sleeve Gastrectomy.

"On April 9, 2008, the Advisory Committee of the American College of Surgeons Bariatric Surgery Center Network (ACS BSCN) Accreditation Program updated the criteria in the Bariatric Accreditation Manual regarding standard surgical procedures. The committee voted to approve adding Sleeve Gastrectomy and Revisional Surgery to its list of standard bariatric surgery procedures. Committee members also clarified that the only gastric bypass procedure (open or laparoscopic) that is acceptable as a standard procedure is the Roux-en-Y.

For the purposes of obtaining and maintaining status as an Accredited Bariatric Center in the ACS BSCN, the following operations are defined as ACS BSCN standard surgical procedures when performed by an open or laparoscopic approach:

Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band
Vertical Banded Gastroplasty
Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch
Biliopancreatic Diversion without Duodenal Switch
Sleeve Gastrectomy
Revisional Surgery"

Excerpted from The American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery research summary on Sleeve Gastrectomy.

15 Studies Patients (n) Preoperative BMI Follow-up Post operative BMI % EWL
775 35 - 69 6 mo – 3 yr 27.7 – 53 33 – 83%

In 2009 the meeting will be a three-part summit that incorporates an ambitious live surgery program, a full day course of didactic sessions showcasing 5-year data, treatment and prevention of complications, various ways to do the sleeve efficiently, comparative data on sleeves versus band and gastric bypass, and finally a consensus panel that will debate the effectiveness of LSG as a primary operation.

Target Audience

This workshop is designed to meet the educational needs of general and bariatric surgeons.

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this program the surgeon will be able to:

  • Describe indications, contraindications and surgical guidelines for LSG as a primary operation.
  • Discuss equipment and instrumentation for LSG.
  • Identify steps of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.
  • Discuss postoperative care and nutritional support options for LSG patients.
  • Describe strategies to avoid or treat commonest complications following this operation.

Accommodations

A limited block of rooms are available at the
Fontainebleau Miami Beach
4441 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida 33140
Mention Ciné-Med to receive a discounted room rate.
fontainbleau.com 1.800.548.8886

Oral or Poster Presentations

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the Second Annual International Consensus Summit for Sleeve Gastrectomy.

This is your chance to interact with surgeons and health care professionals from around the world, to educate and to expose your work to over 500 attendees.

All abstracts received will be forwarded for review and consideration by the course director for presentation at the Second Annual ICSSG on March 19 – 21, 2009 at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach Resort. The abstract submission deadline is January 12, 2009.

We hope you will be able to join us.

Please submit a 250 words abstract, which should describe original work with relevance to LSG. If there is more than one author, the first author listed should be the primary author; the person that has done the majority of the work. This is the author upon whom the classification of the submission should be based.

All material presented in the abstract must be current, relevant and free from ethical bias.

Company logos of the supporting company are prohibited on any part of the poster.

Abstracts must adhere to the following format:

Introduction: This should give background regarding the topic that you are writing about. This may include what prompted this study and what you are examining, studying or reporting.

Objective: This is a statement explaining what you sought to establish, measure, observe or prove Materials and/or Methods: This should include how you carried out your study, what you examined and how you measured or analyzed the material or data.

Discussion/Results: This should include what your analysis revealed and what it might lead to.

Conclusion: In one or two sentences, summarize what you proved or disproved. This may reiterate your discussion.

Other considerations:

All Studies involving the use of animals must conform to the July 2000 revision of Guiding Principles in the Care and Use of Animals (American Physiological Society: the-aps.org).

Authors who have a financial relationship with sponsoring companies or organizations about products or services they are reporting must disclose this information. If the author or any of the co-authors have such a financial relationship, a disclosure statement must be made on the poster or at presentation. Any study involving human subjects must conform to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association (wma.net) and must meet all of the requirements governing informed consent of the country in which it was performed. Permission to use patient photographs is the responsibility of the author(s).

Authors will be notified of the status of their abstract on January 22, 2009.

If accepted for a Poster Session, set up times will be on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. The poster boards will be 4 feet high by 8 feet wide. All poster print outs cannot be bigger than the poster boards. Company logos of the supporting company are prohibited on any part of the poster.

Please send all materials by January 12, 2009 to:

Ciné-Med, Inc.
127 Main Street North
Woodbury, CT 06798
Attention: Caren Genovese