I know there are lots of good cadaver courses for stims/kyphos, but anything for pumps?
Also, do you feel you can confidently learn kyphos via cadaver course if you don't do many/any in your fellowship?
Thanks!
to answer the question to OP, no, I am not aware of any course teaching pump trial/implant.
Why?
Because it's dangerous to learn how to do a pump in a weekend course.
In my fellowship each fellow probably did 200+ stim trial and over 50 stim implant. We each probably did 50 pump trial and 10 pump implant. On the other hand, the amount of time we spent to prepare for a pump trial, and calculating conversion rate, ordering the right amount medications, etc, and etc, was probably 20-30x more time than what we spent on SCS. As a result, none of fellows were interested in doing pump.
And that was 8 years ago when pump was still not unpopular.
Why we spent so much time PREPARING pump trial/implant? Not because pump is hard to do, it's actually easier than SCS, trial or implant, IMHO. What really hard and time-consuming is the time and effort and meticulous details you have to design your work flow to get correct meds, right conc, right flow rate, etc.
When you do SCS and you mess up with programming, no biggie. When you do a pump, you mess up any one small part on medication, flow rate calculation or programming, the patient could overdose, go into w/d, or die!
Is this something you're willing to risk?
In fact, I think out of everything we learnt in fellowship, pump skills is one thing that cannot possibly skip without going through a formal, structural fellowship.