This residency and fellowship training brings attendees together to share ideas and gain insights from experts in the field of urology.

Course Objectives

· Understand the intraoperative techniques of access, fluoroscopy, advancing wire guides and access sheaths, irrigation, stent deployment, and stone extraction with various baskets and graspers

· Review intraoperative factors such as imaging and radiation exposure, sites of percutaneous access, tract dilation, lithotripsy, and nephrostomy tube placement

· Recognize appropriate surgical candidates for percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL)

· Understand the indications and contraindications for the PCNL procedure

· Learn the technique of basic fluoroscopic percutaneous renal access and advanced techniques, such as triangulation and ultrasound-guided access

· Learn the characteristics of laser fibers and how to adjust settings to optimize stone fragmentation

Recommended Attendees

· PGY4 and PGY5 residents and fellows

Featured device

· Disposable Two-Part Trocar Needle

· Amplatz Sheath Clear with Radiopaque Stripe

· Amplatz Fixed Core Wire Guides and Amplatz Support Wire Guides

· Ultraxx™ Nephrostomy Balloon Catheter Set

· Perc NCircle® Nitinol Tipless Stone Extractor

· Perc NGage® Nitinol Stone Extractor

· Black Silicone Filiform Double Pigtail Ureteral Stent Set

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