Children's Medical Center (www.childrens.com) will help improve medical care for children around the world by broadcasting two surgeries live on the internet to help train doctors on the latest corrective bladder options.
In a unique outreach effort, Children's Urology Department will show "Robotic vs. Open Surgery" in this worldwide broadcast intended for pediatric urologists and pediatric surgeons. Two surgeries - one a traditional, open operation and the other performed using the da Vinci robot - will be broadcast to demonstrate the latest techniques for correcting neurogenic urinary incontinence for children with spina bifida and related conditions. Both surgeries will feature bladder neck reconstructions along with appendicovesicostomies - using the appendix to create a channel leading from the bladder to the outside of the body.
Dr. Warren Snodgrass, chief of Children's Urology Division and a professor and chief of Pediatric Urology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, will perform the open surgery. Dr. Patricio Gargollo, director of Children's Pediatric Urology Minimally Invasive and Robotics Surgery and an assistant professor of Pediatric Urology at UT Southwestern, will perform the robotics surgery.
"Our Pediatric Urology program at Children's Medical Center and UT Southwestern was the first in the world to describe and publish this technique of robotic surgery for urinary incontinence," Gargollo said. "Currently, we have one of the country's busiest robotic and minimally invasive surgery programs. We also have one of the busiest centers for the treatment of children with spina bifida and neurogenic bladder. To this extent, we are very honored and proud to reach an international audience through this webinar with the hope of demonstrating to surgeons these novel techniques."