The British Hernia Society will now be running its 11th Conference virtually on Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd November 2020.
The theme of the conference is ‘Improving our patients’ outcomes after hernia surgery’.
The programme features a wide range of topics up for discussion and includes specialists from Europe and the Lichtenstein Hernia Centre in the USA.
The conference is aimed at general surgeons and trainees as well as specialist hernia surgeons.
Abstracts can be submitted for presentation in the Free Paper and Virtual Posters session. The word count is 250 words. The deadline for submission is 31st September 2020. Abstracts should be submitted by email to:
britishherniaconference@gmail.com
Programme:
Day 1: Monday 2nd Nov
Online registration/ login to platform
From 8.30am
Opening address
Chairs: B Stephenson, D Sanders, L Horgan
9.00 Welcome from the congress organisers and format B Stephenson & D Sanders
Session 1: Primary Ventral Hernia
Chairs: A Sheen
09.10 Top tips: anatomy of the abdominal wall Y Renard
09.30 How to manage a ventral hernia when there is also a divarication? C Stabilini
10.00 Ventral hernia guidelines – when to use mesh N Henriksen
& A Montgomery
10.30 Panel discussion and questions from the audience
10.50 Industry Symposium: BD Bard
Long term resorbable mesh in a AWR and Hiatal Hernia Repair J S Roth
(Supported by long term data and clinical experience)
11.20 Break
Session 2: Free paper session 1 – including research grant winners and travelling fellowship
Chairs: A de Beaux & D Light
11.30 FP1 Quality of life following primary parastomal hernia repair: a pilot study K Barrett
11.40 FP2 Safety of using mesh in repair of strangulated groin hernia requiring T Gala
bowel resection: a systematic review and meta-analysis
11.50 FP3 A National Survey of Hernia Services and Surgeons: Review of T Grove
Current Practices Within the UK in association with the British Hernia
Society
12.00 FP4 Small Bites Technique for Closure of Emergency Laparotomy J Hornsby
12.10 FP5 A systematic review of outcome reporting in incisional hernia surgery C Thomas
12.20 Comparison Of Inguinodynia in patients undergoing prophylactic Ilioinguinal Z Zafar Hashmi
neurectomy vs no neurectomy in Lichtenstein mesh hernioplasty.
12.30 Break
13.00 Industry Symposium: BBraun
Subcostal incisional hernia repair made easy A de Beaux
Session 3: Inguinal hernia
Chairs: B Stephenson & S Smith
13.30 The surgeon as a prognostic factor B East
13.50 How to assess post herniorraphy groin pain M Pawlak
14.10 How to treat post herniorraphy groin pain D Chen
14.30 Panel discussion and questions from the audience
Panel: B East, M Pawlak, D Chen
15.30 Industry Sponsored Symposium – Medtronic
Data driven incisional hernia repair N Henriksen
16.00 Break
Session 4: Chair: L Horgan, A Kingsnorth
16.30 Key note lecture: Top tips in hernia surgery: How to make our patients outcomes better D Chen
17.10 Panel discussion and questions from the audience
Panel: D Sanders, D Chen, A Windsor, L Horgan, A Kingsnorth
Day 2: Tuesdy 3rd Nov
08.15 Industry Symposium – AdMedSol
Staying ahead of the curve with altraumatic hernia mesh fixation P Smith
9.00 Presidential Address and BHS Registry L Horgan
Session 5: Trainee prize presentations
Chairs: M Simons & M Miserez
09.20 Should surgeons repair symptomatic, clinically occult, radiologically B Farquharson
evident (SCORE) inguinal hernias? A case-control study of
patient-reported outcomes
09.28 The development and validation of risk stratification models for J Hodgkinson
short-term outcomes following contaminated complex abdominal wall
reconstruction
09.36 A Qualitative Investigation of the Quality of Life (QoL) domains O Smith
important to Patients with Complex Abdominal Wall Hernia (CAWH) –
the initial analysis.
09.44 Exploration of variation in Management of Acutely Symptomatic Hernia O Spence
– results from the MASH practice survey.
09.52 The experimental methodology and comparators used for in vivo hernia T Whitehead-Clarke
mesh testing; a ten year scoping review
10.00 Break
10.10 Industry Symposium: WL Gore
Current status of CAWR in the UK D Slade
Session 6: Incisional Hernia
Chairs: O Ali & D Sanders
10.30 What to do before you operate S Parker
10.50 Disasters in incisional hernia repair and how to avoid them 1? A Windsor
11.10 Disasters in incisional hernia repair and how to avoid them 2? D Slade
11.30 Managing loss of domain – Botox F Berrevoet
11.50 Managing loss of domain – component separation M Miserez
12.10 Managing loss of domain – peritoneal flaps A de Beaux
12.30 Panel discussion and questions from the audience
13.00 Industry Symposium: Medtronic
Optimising the day case patient journey for inguinal hernia repair D Light
14.00 – 14.20 BHS Quiz B Stephenson
Session 7: Complex cases
Chair: D Sanders
14.20 Panel discussion: Email/ video content in complex cases and panel will discuss what they would do?
Panel: S Morales Condes, F Berrevoet, A de Beaux, W Reinpold, D Slade
Session 8: Outcomes
Chairs: M Pawlak & L Horgan
15.10-15.30 Core outcomes in ventral hernia S Parker
15.30-15.50 Reporting Outcomes in hernia surgery N Smart
15.50 – 16.00 Delphi results M Wilson
16.00-16.20 Patient perspectives – what outcomes should we measure S Blackwell
16.20 – 16.40 Panel discussion and questions from the audience
Close: 16.40 – 17.00 Prize presentation and close
