Awake
Breast Augmentation
20.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Maximum of 6 attendees per workshop to assure adequate
hands-on opportunity for all attendees
5-6 Live surgery cases per workshop
Breast Augmentation procedures is also known as
enlargement - augmentation mammoplasty. Patients seeking
an augmentation are usually dissatisfied with their
breast size. This procedure will help correct the volume
size of each breast; however, it will not change any
defect of the breast shape or form. Breast Augmentation
surgery is done under general or local anesthesia and
usually on an outpatient basis.
Office-based Awake Breast Augmentation workshop
learning objectives:
1. Attendees will scrub in for surgical procedures
2. Summarize the clinical aspects to the procedure,
including patient selection, safe dosing limits of lidocaine in tumescent anesthesia, and proper surgical
methods & techniques.
3. Integrate the procedure into the existing physician's
office setting from a clinical and marketing standpoint.
4. Present the most efficient layout in a facility to
perform the procedure.
5. Calculate the start-up costs and instrument set-up
for the procedure.
6. Define issues of medical malpractice an dhow it
relates the physicians.
7. Assess the financial benefit of the fee-for-service
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8. Recite effective methods to manage patients
dissatisfied or challenging.
9. Recognize lidocaine side effects and post-operative
complications.
Course
Outline:
Day 1
7:30-8:30 Breakfast & Registration
8:00-9:30 Lecture of Breast Augmentation/Powerpoint
presentation
1. Patient Selection
2. Preoperative & Postoperative Photography
3. Tumescent Anesthesia Preparation
4. Patient Preparation and Nursing Protocols
5. Technique of Tumescent Anesthesia Infiltration
6. Lidocaine Side Effects
7. Anatomy
8. Implants
9. Measurements
9:30-12:00 Live Surgery #1
12:00-12:30 Lunch (questions & answers)
12:30-3:00 Live
Surgery #2
3:00-5:30 Live
Surgery #3
5:30 - 6:30 Questions & Answers
6:30 Adjourn
Day 2
7:30-8:00 Breakfast &
Registration
8:00-9:00 Lecture of Breast Augmentation/Powerpoint
presentation
1. Complications
2. Handling the Dissatisfied of Difficult Patient
3. O.R. Setup, Equipment, Supplies & Cleaning
4. Malpractice Insurance
5. Breast Augmentation in the Medical Office
6. Advertising & Promotional Materials
9:30-12:00 Live Surgery #1
12:00-12:30 Lunch (questions & answers)
12:30-3:00 Live Surgery #2
3:00-5:30 Live Surgery #3
5:30-6:30 Questions & Answers
6:30 Adjourn
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