Practice:
Dr. Van Daele is a pioneer in spine endoscopy, was the first in Belgium to routinely apply this in a back surgery practice. He has the most experience in this technique throughout Belgium.
Full-endoscopic back surgery in the practice of Dr. Van Daele has evolved to the standard surgical treatment of all dik herniations and all types of spinal stenosis decompression.
The technique is used for cervical and lumbar pathologies.
There is more than seven years of experience, such operations take place several times a surgical day.
More than 300 full-endoscopic surgeries a year are performed by Dr. Van Daele.
Memberships:
Member and Faculty AOspine
Member and Riwospine Alliance
Member Society for Minimal Invasive Spine Surgery (SMIS)
Member Belgian Spine Society (BSS)
Member Belgian Elbow and Shoulder Society (BELS)
Member Belgische Vereniging voor Orthopedie en Traumatologie ( BVOT)
Member LOK Zuid West-Vlaanderen.
Member Geneeskundige Kring Waregem
Contribution together with other endoscopic experts to the nomenclature in endoscopy:
“AOSpine Consensus Paper on Nomenclature for Working-Channel Endoscopic Spinal Procedures”
Christoph P. Hofstetter, MD, PhD, Yong Ahn, MD, PhD, Gun Choi, MD, PhD, J. N. A. Gibson, DSc, FRCSEd, S. Ruetten, MD, Yue Zhou, MD, PhD, Zhen Zhou Li, MD, PhD, Christoph J. Siepe, MD, Ralf Wagner, MD, Jun-Ho Lee, MD, PhD, Koichi Sairyo, MD, PhD, Kyung Chul Choi, MD, PhD, Chien-Min Chen, MD, A. E. Telfeian, MD, PhD, Xifeng Zhang, MD, PhD, Arun Banhot, MD, Pramod V. Lokhande, MS, DNB, MNAMS, N. Prada, MD, Jian Shen, MD, F. C. Cortinas, MD, N. P. Brooks, MD, Peter Van Daele, MD, Vit Kotheeranurak, MD, Saqib Hasan, MD, Gun Keorochana, MD, Mohammed Assous, MD, Roger Härtl, MD, PhD, Jin-Sung Kim, MD, PhD First Published May 28, 2020 Research Article
https://doi.org/10.1177/2192568219887364
Dr. Van Daele is International Instructor: in de Riwospine Alliace en en bij AO spine.
Training is given to Belgian and international back surgeons (neurosurgeons and orthopaedic back surgeons).
These trainings take place in Waregem, in our own operating theatre and at international meetings. Dr. Van Daele is regularly invited as an expert speaker at national and international conferences.
Dr. Van Daele actively contributes to the endoscopy subdivision of the AOspine minimal invasive task force.
Experience:
At the end of 2014, Dr. Van Daele introduced the technique of full-endoscopic back surgery in our hospital for the first time. It involved a great deal of preparation and study work before the first patient could be helped in our hospital with this innovative technique. From his passion for back pathology, which until then had been treated in a mini-open procedure (METRx) and open, and his experience with endoscopic shoulder surgery, it was almost obvious that Dr. Van Daele became fascinated by this minimally invasive form of back surgery. By establishing international contacts, following practical training courses and refresher courses, he broadened his knowledge in this area and mastered the surgical skills to safely introduce this technique. He audits his progress on the basis of a prospective database and communicates the results to interested parties. In the meantime, he has already performed 312 full endoscopic back operations until the end of 2018, 126 of which during the last year. During 2018, the expertise was extended and, in addition to discectomy, also applied to more complex endoscopic indications such as lumbar lateral recessive stenosis and central canal stenosis. For the latter indication a full-endoscopic ULBD (Unilateral Laminotomy Bilateral Decompression) is performed. As a result, major surgery becomes extremely minimally invasive. Starting in the last quarter, ULBDs at several lumbar levels were also performed in a single operation time. Dr. Van Daele is therefore recognised in the broad region as one of the 'early adopters' of this technique. In 2018, several fellow back surgeons (neurosurgeons and spinal orthopaedic surgeons) attended surgery in Waregem and Dr. Van Daele, as a proctor, also assisted several Belgian and European colleagues on location during their first procedures. On 3 October 2018 he organised his first 'Clinical Consultation: Full-endoscopic Spine Surgery' congress in Waregem. During the year 2018 he shared his knowledge in Germany as Cadavar Lab Instructor with an international delegation of back surgeons during a total of 5 courses under the denominator 'Intensive Training Course for Full-endoscopic Surgery of the Lumbar Spine', 'Master Class Training Course for Full-endoscopic Surgery of the Lumbar and Cervical Spine' and 'Intensive Training Course for Full-endoscopic Surgery ot the Lumbar Spine'. Dr. Van Daele had the special honour to be invited as one of the five Faculty members of the very first AO Spine Endoscopy Course that took place from 8 to 11 December 2018 in Davos, Switzerland. He represented the European continent (Middle East and Southern Africa) as an expert, was an instructor during the 'hands on workshops' and his lectures titled: 'Optimizing case selection and surgical indications for spinal endoscopy' & 'Customizing your operation room to spinal endoscopy; set-up considerations' were highly appreciated by the 162 surgeons present, 92% of whom indicated that what they had heard will have a major impact on their daily clinical practice. In total he was involved in 30 scientific back endoscopy activities for the year 2018, at 21 he was (co-)organizer of the activity, at 9 he was merely a participant. Half of the activities had an international character, the other half took place in Belgium. In the autumn of 2019 the number of full-endoscopic back operations on the lumbar vertebral column will further expand and full-endoscopic therapy of cervical (neck) hernias will be started. In this state of the art evolution in back surgery, our department takes a pioneering role at the Belgian and European level. Its role in endoscopic back surgery is now internationally recognized.