Yes, You Can Teach Yourself Endoscopic Ear Surgery (2023 AMW) Session
2023 AAO-HNSF Annual Meeting & OTO Experience
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Think you need to take an expensive, multi-day course to learn endoscopic ear surgery? You do not. This session is designed to give you the foundation you need to start doing endoscopic ear surgery in your own practice right now. Endoscopic ear surgery doesn't require a lot of expensive equipment, and the techniques build on skills you already have. This session will take away the intimidation of getting started and put this incredible advancement for chronic ear disease management within your reach.OUTCOME OBJECTIVE 1: Understand key patient and surgeon benefits of endoscopic chronic ear surgery over traditional microscope surgery.OUTCOME OBJECTIVE 2: Enumerate key instrumentation, OR set up, and equipment for a successful start to endoscopic ear surgery.OUTCOME OBJECTIVE 3: Emerge ready to explore endoscopic techniques in care of chronic ear disease.BACKGROUND STATEMENT: Endoscopic ear surgery is an amazing innovation to offer patients, but is intimidating to the uninitiated. This session will empower attendees to launch their own endoscopic ear practice by concisely laying out instrumentation, case selection for skill progression, and essential technique.