National GreenLight Meeting 2018

This time we celebrated in Madrid the National GreenLight Meeting, with a programme packed with talks and surgeries.

We enjoyed the participation of international faculty of prestige.

We enjoyed the talks of Dr. Giovanni Ferrari, Dr. Luca Cindolo, and Dr. Franc Bruyere, from France. A very interesting date commenting the advantages of the new advanced techniques, anatomic vaporization of the prostate and GreenLEP, over the classic vaporization technique.

We enjoyed a great day sharing knowledge and experiences with other urologists who are users of the GreenLight laser throughout the country and who want to improve their technique and results.

Semi-live surgery at the ESUT 2018 Congress in Modena, Italy

This time I went to Modena, Italy, to participate at a live surgical session during the ESUT 2018 Congress. My role was to demonstrate the GreenLEP technique (GreenLight Laser Enucleation of the Prostate).

The organization of the meeting was impressive as they broadcasted three simultaneous operations and the attendees could use headphones to listen to the discussion of the operation of their liking.

I had 30 minutes to show the technique while I received questions from the moderators of the session.

An espectacular congress with live and semi-live surgeries performed by urology experts from all over the world.

Visitors to our operating room

Today we received,  as nearly every month, visitors to our operating room that wanted to learn the new techniques that we use with the GreenLight Laser. This time we received the visit of Dr. Carrecedo, from Hospital Juan Carlos I, Dr. Pablo Navarro from Hospital Carlos Haya and Dr. Gregorio Escribano, from Hospital Gregorio Marañón.

It was a pleasure to host them and share the techniques and details of what we do every day.

AUA Congress in San Francisco

Again I went to San Francisco to participate at the American Urology Congress. This year there was no course of Advanced Techniques with the GreenLight laser as previous years.

My contribution this year was with four collaborative works. I am proud to see that the uptake of GreenLEP, the technique for enucleation of the prostate that I described is growing worldwide.

So posters and oral presentations plus another video on how to perform morcellation safely, that was presented by Dr. Enrique Rijo.

As always a very interesting congress full of new stuff. I also had time to see my old friends and to enjoy San Francisco a little. 

HoLEP mentoring at the Hospital de La Princesa in Madrid

Today I went to the Hospital de La Princesa in Madrid, where I trained as a resident many years ago, to help my colleagues to start their experience with HoLEP or Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate.

We did two cases that went very well. My nurses Vanesa and Sandra came with us to make sure everything went well. The HoLEP procedure is quite simple and safe, but it needs very good team work to succeed.

It was a pleasure to operate in the operating room were I learnt so much as a resident and to see the last three urologists who remain from my time as a resident.