POST-CONGRESS WORKSHOP
2nd Master Class on Multi-Organ Retrieval & Transplantation
The Post Congress workshop of Sri Lanka Medical Association 132nd International Annual Academic Sessions “The 2nd Master Class on Multi-Organ Retrieval & Transplantation” was successfully held on 28th July 2019 at Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura with the participation of post-graduate surgical trainees, senior doctors and consultant surgeons. This workshop was organized by Sri Lanka Medical Association in collaboration with Organ Transplant Unit, Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital, Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura and The College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka. Workshop welcome address was delivered by Dr. Anula Wijesundara, President, Sri Lanka Medical Association. The resource persons were introduced by Prof. Surangi Yasawardene, Dean, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. President of the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka, Dr. Nissanka Jayewardene also addressed the gathering.
The early half of the workshop was dedicated for hands-on skills training on Lung, Heart, Liver and Kidney retrieval and perfusion procedures. The evening session was entirely for hands-on skills for transplantation steps of the retrieved organs. Prof. Surangi Yasewardene, Dean and Senior Professor of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Prof. Rohan Siriwardene, Consultant Gastroenterological, Hepatobiliary & Transplant Surgeon and Professor in Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Dr. Ruwan Dissanayake, Consultant Transplant Surgeon, National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Dr. Rajitha Silva, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital, Dr. Rohan Sirisena, Consultant General Surgeon, Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital, Dr. Sumana Handagala, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, National Hospital for Respiratory Diseases, Welisara, Dr. P.H. Dissanayake, Head, Senior Lecturer in Anatomy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Dr. Niroshan Seneviratne Consultant Urologist and Transplant Surgeon, Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital, Dr. Sajith Edirisinghe, Assistant Secretary, Sri Lanka Medical Association and Lecturer in Anatomy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Dr. N. Gunawansa, Consultant Vascular, Endovascular & Transplant Surgeon, Dr. N. Athulugama, Consultant Surgeon, Dr. R. Wickramarachchi, Consultant Urologist, Dr. S. Ilangamge, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Dr. D. Rasnayake, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon participated as the resource persons for the workshop.
Cadaveric training sessions on surgical training has shown to improve the performance of surgical trainees during subsequent live surgery. Both trainees and assessors hold them in high regard and feel they help to improve operative skills. Hands-on Surgical skills workshops are held all over the world to improve the surgical trainees’ technical skills and they are offered at a very high cost. The Department of Anatomy of the FMS, USJP has adopted the Fresh-Frozen Technique to preserve the cadavers and Fresh-frozen cadaver is currently the model that is closest to reality. The carefully designed 2nd Masterclass on Multi-organ retrieval and transplantation was offered at a very affordable cost for the local surgical trainee.
A hand book of the important steps of the multi organ transplantation was also launched during the workshop.
