Bringing together almost 200 spine surgeons interesting in deepening their knowledge, the fourth edition of the AOSpine Latin America regional courses was a success.

 

Some of the world’s leading spine experts shared their knowledge and experience during the comprehensive and highly interactive event that took place June 6–8, 2019, in Santiago, Chile. Surgeons from 15 countries benefited from the innovative, interaction-enabling teaching methodology applied by renowned faculty.

 

An extraordinary scientific program that had been carefully planned by Course chairs and educational advisors comprised masters modules on degenerative spine in the elderly and complications, a principles course, a seminar on research, and a seminar for current and former fellows. The complete scientific program included:

 

• Research Seminar—Critical Appraisal of Literature
• Master Seminar—Degenerative Spine in the Elderly

• Module 1: Degenerative cervical spine
• Module 2: Degenerative lumbar spine
• Module 3: De Novo degenerative scoliosis and complications
  
  

• Master Seminar—Complications

• Module 1: Complications related with sagittal balance
• Module 2: How to understand causes and mechanisms of certain
  complications
• Module 3: Good planning can reduce complications
  
  

• Principles course

• Session 1: Thoracolumbar trauma
• Session 2: Low cervical spine fracture
• Session 3: Workshops on cervical spine
• Session 4: Cervical disc herniation
• Session 5: Lumbar disc herniation
• Session 6: Lumbar stenosis
• Session 7: Lumbar spondylolisthesis
• Session 8: Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
• Session 9: Workshops on thoracolumbar spine
• Session 10: Evidence-based medicine

 

• Fellows and Ex-Fellows Seminar
• Plenary session on degenerative disc disease, adult deformity and surgical techniques

 

The event was a great opportunity for participants to update their knowledge, share experiences and interact with world-class spine surgery opinion leaders, including: Christopher Shaffrey (University of Virginia, US), Claudio Lamartina (I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi Milan, IT), Ferrán Pellisé (Spine Unit Vall d'Hebron, ES), Kenneth Cheung (University of Hong Kong, HK), Munish Gupta (Washington University School of Medicine, US) and Zdenek Klezl (Royal Derby Hospital, UK).

 

Attendance at the various courses

 

Among the participants, 62 attended the Master Seminar—Degenerative Spine in the Elderly and 43 took part in the Master Seminar—Complications. Forty-one surgeons took part in the principles course while the seminar for fellows had 45 participants and the 40 were in the research seminar.

 

The plenary session at the end of the regional courses summarized the most relevant content related to degenerative disc disease research, lumbar lordosis, coronal imbalance in adult scoliosis, planning and technical pearls in adult deformity surgery, pedicle subtraction osteotomies and cervical fracture dislocations.

 

 

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