otorinomatera

PRACTICAL COURSE HELD ON Sept. 26th 2009, Matera - Italy

Why to participate.
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most frequent cause of vertigo. This disease, although often benign, provokes in the affected patients an intense adverse psychological reaction, sometimes inducing an immediate and severe crisis of anxiety and fear, so as to result highly disabling. It is necessary for these patients a correct and rapid diagnostic / therapeutic approach in order to made the most proper rehabilitative treatment, in fact, the patient returns to his/her serenity and self-confidence immediately after the resolution of the acute symptoms, this prevents inappropriate and expensive instrumental exams. This course is designed to provide Audiometrists, Audioprotesists and Physiotherapists with the most appropriate methods of evaluation and treatment of BPPV.
G. Asprella Libonati M.D.

Physical therapy for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
evidence-based theoretical and practical course


Course director: Giacinto Asprella Libonati MD -
head of Unit of Audiology, Vestibology and Phoniatry
in ENT dep. "Madonna delle Grazie" Hospital - Matera - Italy
e-mail: asprella@alice.it
Teacher Board:
" Giuseppe Agus (Cagliari)
" Giacinto Asprella Libonati (Matera)
" Luigi Califano (Benevento)
" Gennaro Larotonda (Matera)
" Leonardo Manzari (Cassino)
" Vincenzo Marcelli (Napoli)
" Paolo Vannucchi (Firenze)




GENERAL INFORMATION

Course venue. The course will take place at the Auditorium of "Madonna delle Grazie" Hospital Matera - Italy

Organizing Secretariat: ARES CONFERENCE, Via G.Gattini, 33 - 75100 MATERA - Italy
Ph n. +39 0835 1970062
fax + 39 0835 333222
mobile +39 3356692779
e-mail: info@aresconference.it
website: www.aresconference.it

Italian CME: accreditation request filed to the Italian Ministry of Health for the following categories:
N. 20 Audiometrists (audiometric technicians)
N. 20 Audioprotesists (hearing aid technicians)
N. 20 Physiotherapists

Certificate of attendance: a certificate of attendance will be issued at the end of the course. CME certificate will be sent by e-mail after test verify.

Language: Italian and English will be the official languages for the course. There will be simultaneous translation service from Italian to English.
Hotel accommodation: request and information concerning the accommodation can be addressed to:
ARES CONFERENCE, Via G.Gattini, 33 - 75100 MATERA - Italy
Ph n. +39 0835 1970062
fax + 39 0835 333222
mobile +39 3356692779
e-mail: info@aresconference.it

Fee: 80 euros before 6th September 2009, 90 euros after 6th September 2009, by cheque or online, (includes refreshments, Coffee break and Lunch, course booklet and CPD certificate - 8hrs).

Course Registration & Payment: send your filled form to ARES COFERENCE by FAX: + 39
0835 333222 or by e-mail: info@aresconference.it
Payment must be done by direct bank transfer in favour of:
Ares Conference via Gattini, 33 75100 MATERA
IBAN CODE: IT79X0525616103000000910175
(please: mention attendee's name and title of the event. Money transfer fees are charged on attendees).




Programme

Sept. 26th 2009:

08.15-08.30 Attending's registration

08.30-08.40 Course presentation and greetings by the authorities.

08.40-09.0 Lecture: BPPV: general information, classification, natural history, incidence. The anamnesis. G. Asprella Libonati

09.00-09.20 Lecture: The semeiotic of the nystagmus related to BPPV in the last 112 years.
G. Larotonda

09.20-09.40 Lecture: Posterior Canal BPPV diagnosis.
L. Califano

09.40-10.00 Lecture: Lateral Canal BPPV diagnosis.
G. Agus

10.00-10.20 Lecture: The diagnosis of the uncommon forms : anterior canal, pluri-canalar and atypical BPPV.
V. Marcelli

10.20-10.40 Coffee break

10.40-11.00 Lecture: Liberatory manoeuvres for PC BPPV.
L. Manzari

11.00-11.20 Lecture: Liberatory manoeuvres for LC BPPV.
P. Vannucchi

11.20-11.40 Lecture: How to observe the BPPV nystagmuses by IR-videonystagmoscopy.
G. Gagliardi

11.40-12.00 Lecture: Strategies of approach to BPPV.
G. Asprella Libonati



First practical section:

12.00-13.00 Live demonstration of the techniques for the most common diagnostic and therapeutic manoeuvres (all the faculty).

13.00-14.00 Lunch

Second practical section:

14.00-17.30 Demonstrations of clinical cases with live patients and videos.
(all the faculty)

17.30-18.00 CME test.

End of the course