Date/time: Tuesday 9 September 2025, 08:40-17:00 CEST
Venue: Palais des Congrès
Fees (inc. VAT): ESCP Member €360, Non-Member €480
Registration: Online Services Portal
Course description
Despite the efforts in improving safety of the childbirth, the obstetric anal sphincters injuries (OASIS) still represent a quite frequent event which needs hopefully immediate interventions (much better if performed by well-trained obstetrician/surgeon) to prevent faecal incontinence. The optimal diagnostic work up (to avoid occult or underestimated sphincters lesions), the best timing and modality of repair, and the best postoperative management (including treatment of persistence/recurrence of faecal incontinence) are still debated and not standardised.
This OASIS Course is aimed to discuss all critical steps of diagnosis and repair of OASIS by a well-experienced Faculty. Moreover, the Course will offer to the participants the unique opportunity to be trained on a realistic model of OASIS, on which each single participant will be able to perform a repair of severe to moderate OASIS.
Programme
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
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08:40 - 08:50 |
Welcome - Carlo Ratto (Italy) |
|
08:50 - 09:10 |
Functional anatomy of the perineum: why it is so important to know it… even in the delivery room - Angelo Alessandro Marra (Italy), Marco Soligo (Italy) |
|
09:10 - 09:30 |
Normality and abnormality of vaginal birth: episiotomy, suction cup, forceps, lacerations, hematomas - Ilaria Baini (Italy), Marco Soligo (Italy) |
|
09:30 - 09:50 |
Epidemiology of childbirth injuries - Ilaria Baini (Italy), Mario Pagano (Italy) |
|
09:50 - 10:10 |
Diagnostics of obstetric lesions and classification - Paola Campenni (Italy), Marco Soligo (Italy) |
|
10:10 - 10:30 |
New perspectives for a reliable assessment of OASIS, Carlo Ratto (Italy) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
|
11:00 - 11:30 |
Surgical repair of 3rd and 4th degree perineal lacerations and post-operative management - Carlo Ratto (Italy), Marco Soligo (Italy) |
|
11:30 - 11:50 |
Follow up and obstetric prognosis after OASIS - Marco Soligo (Italy), Ilaria Baini (Italy) |
|
11:50 - 12:10 |
The treatment of fecal incontinence: how and when? - Francesco Litta (Italy), Angelo Alessandro Marra (Italy) |
|
12:10 - 12:45 |
Question time |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 17:00 |
Practical session on simulator: repair of 3rd and 4th degree lacerations on basic organic model (bovine tongue) and associated vagino-perineal repair - Paola Campenni (Italy), Francesco Litta (Italy), Angelo Alessandro Marra (Italy), Mario Pagano (Italy), Carlo Ratto (Italy) |
| 17:00 | Course ends |
Course director
- Prof. Carlo Ratto
Faculty
- Dr Ilaria Baini (Milan, Italy)
- Dr Paola Campennì (Rome, Italy)
- Dr Francesco Litta (Rome, Italy)
- Dr Angelo Alessandro Marra (Rome, Italy)
- Dr Mario Pagano (Italy)
- Prof. Carlo Ratto (Rome, Italy)
- Prof. Marco Soligo (Milan, Italy)