Thursday, 03 December 2020
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Major Sponsor of the Royal Belgian Surgical Society :
Dear colleagues,
You are cordially invited to follow our virtual 'BSW light' from November 25th to November 27th, 2020.
We decided long ago to cancel the « real » BSW but we want to give all of the colleagues whose abstract was selected the opportunity to to present their work initially submitted for BSW 2020 in May.
This is what we offer you:
- November 25-26th, 2020 : two parallel online rooms: virtual, 2 parallel free papers sessions, the BAST trainer-trainee session and the video sessions, from 17.00 until 21.00h
- November 27th : one “plenary” session, from 17.00 until 20.00h, also virtual
- November 28th, 2020 : BGES-BAST-RBSS hands-on workshop, a classic by now is cancelled despite all efforts undertaken, due to the recurrent surge of the COVID 19 pandemic. Registered trainees will be contacted individually.
The program is now online available on the conference website www.belgiansurgicalweek.be.
The ever-changing restrictions, the uncertainties, the questions, the fear, our health, our loved ones, our career, our finances, the future........ I am fed up with COVID and I am aware that most of you are too.
However, we can’t ignore COVID’s impact on our surgical practice. Even being tired of it, we considered it our task to address it in the only plenary session of the congress on Friday Nov 27th. We have invited surgeons from different countries and specialties as well as local 'Belgian heroes' to explain how they manage their work during COVID-crisis in their countries.
We sincerely hope we will be able to organize a « real » BSW in 2021. More info to follow soon !
As such: the only thing left to do is register for this extraordinary online gathering!
Please join us on the first - and hopefully last - virtual BSW !
Yours,
In name of the RBSS Board,
Charles de Gheldere
President RBSS 2019-2020
Please tune in regularly for more updates on the section, its members and activities!
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Dear Colleague,
As Belgium is confronted with a second wave with even higher impact on the normal care, including cancer surgery,
the Belgian Society for Thoracic Surgery (BeSTS), a section of the Royal Belgian Society of Surgery (RBSS), would like to invite you to the following webinar:
BeSTS Webinar
"Management of Lung Cancer during a Covid-19 Surge: what to do when surgery is currently not an option?"
Tuesday November 10th, 2020, 19H00 CET
Please find the program below.
We are grateful that three experts are willing to give their view on the management of lung cancer in these special times in such short notice.
Introduction
Herbert Decaluwé, UZ Leuven
The Surgeon’s View: New York Experience during the first Wave (20 min),
Brendon Stiles, Weill University, NY
The Radiation Oncologist‘s View (20 min),
Yolande Lievens, UZ Gent
The Respiratory Oncologist‘s View (20 min),
Christophe Dooms, UZ Leuven
Q&A
Please register in advance:
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You are invited to a Zoom meeting:
Management of Lung Cancer during a Covid-19 Surge
When: Nov 10, 2020 19:00 Brussels (CET)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYoc-uvqTkqGtTcDb3WlJPDMzMGKcbC-Ffh
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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+++++September 8th, 2020++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dear Colleague,
During the latest General Assembly of the RBSS, Sept 1st 2020, the RBSS Board announced the creation of the new Belgian Section for Thoracic Surgery (BeSTS). I would like to thank you for your messages with enthusiastic support. More than 50 surgeons signed the request to the RBSS.
The next step is the creation of the Board of this new section, which consists of 8 members including the President, the Vice-President, the General Secretary, the Treasurer, the Scientific Coordinator and three other members in accordance to the current bylaws (in attachment).
Read more ...Dear all,
COVID-19 holds our whole world in a stranglehold.
Unlike other countries we were lucky to have the opportunity to brace before things got out of hand.
We still don’t know how hard the virus is going to hit us but at least most of our hospitals did their best to be prepared for the attack..
We are all set. Or not. Only time will tell.
With this post, we want to reach out to you and offer you some background information as well as practical tips from within the surgical community. Check this page regularly as it will be updated along with expanding global knowledge and experiences.
Read more ...On 10.04.2020, the RBSS and BGES sent out a press release to Belgian media on the noticed decrease of appendicitis since the outbreak of the COVID-19-pandemic and hence decrease in surgical management of this disease spectrum.
Read the NL press release here.
Read the FR press release here.
Following news articles were diffused based on the press release: