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Security Forces Hospital in Riyadh will inform the doctors in a symposium that will start tomorrow on the latest neuromonitoring techniques for thyroid surgery, to reduce the possibility of injury to the nerve surrounding the vocal cords, which is usually exposed to a great risk when performing such surgeries, and to maintain the quality of the voice and not to change it. In the symposium, doctors are introduced to the latest surgical techniques in the field of endocrinology, through a direct transfer from inside the operating room to Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz Hall, for a thyroid surgery performed by Dr. Saud Al-Rashidi, consultant of general and endocrine and breast surgery and the head of the scientific committee of the symposium, Dr. Dral is President of the European Society and World Association of Endocrine Surgery.
Al-Rashidi explained that a number of prominent speakers at the international and local levels will participate in the symposium, who will present their experiences and research in the field of thyroid surgery, as Dr.Deral, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Saif, Deputy Dean of the College of Medicine at King Saud University and Head of the Endocrine Surgery Department, Dr. Saif Al-Subhi will participate. Head of the Endocrine Surgery Department at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Dr. Hussam bin Yousef, Head of the Endocrine Surgery Department at the Armed Forces Hospital in Riyadh and Head of Supervision and Training for the Central Region at the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, Dr. Saleh Al Dhaheri, Head of the Department of Otolaryngology at the Hospital King Abdulaziz University, and a number of prominent speakers, who will discuss the anatomical and physiological function of the vagus nerve, thyroid surgery and its complications, neuromonitoring of thyroid surgery, and the future of training for endocrinologists.
For his part, Dr. Muhammad Omar Asiri, Director of Academic Affairs and Health Awareness Department, indicated that this seminar is approved by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties for six training hours, directing an invitation to all interested and specialists to attend it and benefit from the valuable information that will be presented in it.
