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Advanced Awake Laser Liposuction with Facial Fat Grafting

Course Director: Walter Tom, MD, FACS

Course Location:
Aesthetic Laser and Vein Centers
170 Farmers Lane, Ste 6B
Santa Rosa, CA 95405

Course Date: September 25-26, 2010

Course Fee: $7000 (20day workshop)

CME: 19.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™

Day One
7:00 – 7:30 am Registration, Welcome, and Breakfast
7:30 – 7:45 am History of the procedure "How it got started and by whom!"
7:45 – 8:00 am The Overview: Office base liposuction and Facial Fat Grafting using local tumescent anesthesia
8:00 – 8:10 am Anatomy review "Break it down"
8:10 – 8:20 am Identifying potential patients then consent & exam
8:20 – 8:45 am Patient preparation and preoperative medications
Local tumescent anesthesia preparation.
Identifying safe limits of lidocaine & side effects
8:45 – 9:00 am Patient markings – fat deposits (topography format) and Keys to pre/post operative photography
9:15-9:30 am Morning Break (food & drink available)
9:30 -12:30 pm First case of live surgery with hands-on opportunity: upper and lower abdomen
Room set-up, instrument selection & layout, and surgical dressing
Infiltration methods of infusing local tumescent anesthesia using infiltration
cannula or spinal needles
Aspiration methods utilizing SAL and/or PAL
12:30 – 1:30 pm Working Lunch (Food and Drink available)
Recovery, post operative treatment, and potential complications involving touch-up
1:45 – 5:00 pm Second live surgery with hands-on opportunity: upper & lower abdomen with flanks
(beginning liposuction)
5:00 – 6:00 pm Overall review, question and answer session
6:00 pm Adjourn
7:30 pm Dinner with Staff and Attendees
   
Day Two
7:00 – 7:30 am Breakfast
7:30 – 9:00 am Live Facial Fat Grafting (Re-injection patients)
10:30 AM – 1:00 pm  
Live surgery with hands-on opportunity. One case both upper & lower abdomen
with flanks and Facial Fat Grafting
1:00 – 2:00 pm Working Lunch
Business model for implementing liposuction into your practice.
Marketing this cosmetic procedure into your practice both internally & externally.
Establishing a fee schedule for the procedure
Malpractice Considerations
Instrument selection and O/R set-up, costs of getting started
Discussing physical space requirements: ideal set-up for your liposuction suite
2:00 – 5:00 PM Live surgery with hands-on opportunity. Laser Liposuction with facial fat grafting
5:00 – 5:30 PM Managing patients who are challenging & unsatisfied with the result
Overall review, question and answer session
5:30 PM Adjourn
   

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