Awake Breast Augmentation

20.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Maximum of 6 attendees per workshop to assure adequate hands-on opportunity for all attendees
5-6 Live surgery cases per workshop

Breast Augmentation procedures is also known as enlargement - augmentation mammoplasty. Patients seeking an augmentation are usually dissatisfied with their breast size. This procedure will help correct the volume size of each breast; however, it will not change any defect of the breast shape or form. Breast Augmentation surgery is done under general or local anesthesia and usually on an outpatient basis.

Office-based Awake Breast Augmentation workshop learning objectives:
1. Attendees will scrub in for surgical procedures
2. Summarize the clinical aspects to the procedure, including patient selection, safe dosing limits of lidocaine in tumescent anesthesia, and proper surgical methods & techniques.
3. Integrate the procedure into the existing physician's office setting from a clinical and marketing standpoint.
4. Present the most efficient layout in a facility to perform the procedure.
5. Calculate the start-up costs and instrument set-up for the procedure.
6. Define issues of medical malpractice an dhow it relates the physicians.
7. Assess the financial benefit of the fee-for-service awake tummy tuck workshop.
8. Recite effective methods to manage patients dissatisfied or challenging.
9. Recognize lidocaine side effects and post-operative complications.

Course Outline:
Day 1
7:30-8:30      Breakfast & Registration
8:00-9:30      Lecture of Breast Augmentation/Powerpoint presentation
1. Patient Selection
2. Preoperative & Postoperative Photography
3. Tumescent Anesthesia Preparation
4. Patient Preparation and Nursing Protocols
5. Technique of Tumescent Anesthesia Infiltration
6. Lidocaine Side Effects
7. Anatomy
8. Implants
9. Measurements
9:30-12:00     Live Surgery #1
12:00-12:30   Lunch (questions & answers)
12:30-3:00     Live Surgery #2
3:00-5:30       Live Surgery #3 
5:30 - 6:30     Questions & Answers
6:30                 Adjourn

Day 2
7:30-8:00     Breakfast & Registration
8:00-9:00     Lecture of Breast Augmentation/Powerpoint presentation
1. Complications
2. Handling the Dissatisfied of Difficult Patient
3. O.R. Setup, Equipment, Supplies & Cleaning
4. Malpractice Insurance
5. Breast Augmentation in the Medical Office
6. Advertising & Promotional Materials
9:30-12:00    Live Surgery #1
12:00-12:30 Lunch (questions & answers)
12:30-3:00    Live Surgery #2
3:00-5:30      Live Surgery #3
5:30-6:30     Questions & Answers
6:30              Adjourn