Clinical gastrointestinal endoscopy

Section I: Equipment and general principles of endoscopy. The history of gastrointestinal endoscopy -- Setting up an endoscopy facility -- How endoscopes work -- Cleaning and disinfecting gastrointestinal endoscopy equipment -- Tissue sampling, specimen handling, and chromoendoscopy -- Electrosurgery in therapeutic endoscopy -- Sedation and monitoring in endoscopy -- Patient preparation and pharmacotherapeutic considerations -- Bowel preparation for colonoscopy -- Reporting, documentation, and risk management -- Small-caliber endoscopy -- Postsurgical endoscopic anatomy -- Endoscopic simulators -- Section II: Luminal gastrointestinal disorders. Part 1: Gastrointestinal bleeding -- Nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding -- Portal hypertensive bleeding -- Lower gastrointestinal bleeding -- Mid-gut gastrointestinal bleeding -- Occult and unexplained chronic gastrointestinal bleeding -- Part 2: Esophageal Disorders. Esophageal motility disorders -- Endoscopic diagnosis and management of Zenker's diverticula -- Benign esophageal strictures -- Ingested foreign objects and food bolus impactions -- Eosinophilic esophagitis -- Gastroesophageal reflux disease -- Barrett's esophagus -- Screening for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma -- Endoscopic treatment of early esophageal neoplasia -- Palliation of malignant dysphagia and esophageal fistulas -- Part 3: Gastric disorders. Gastroparesis -- Gastric polyps and thickened gastric folds -- Subepithelial tumors of the esophagus and stomach -- Diagnosis and treatment of superficial gastric neoplasms -- Palliation of gastric outlet obstruction -- Part 4: Duodenal disorders. Duodenal and papillary adenomas -- Part 5: Colonic disorders. Acute colonic pseudo-obstruction -- Colorectal cancer screening and surveillance -- Polypectomy, mucosal resection, and submucosal dissection -- Endoscopic diagnosis and staging of inflammatory bowel disease -- Dysplasia surveillance in inflammatory bowel disease -- Colonic strictures -- Part 6: Miscellaneous. Infections of the luminal digestive tract -- Techniques in enteral access -- Endoscopic techniques for weight loss -- Management of post-bariatric complications -- Intramural and transmural endoscopy -- Endoscopic full thickness resection of subepithelial lesions of the GI tract -- Extraintestinal endosonography -- Section 3: Pancreatobiliary disorders. Part 1: general considerations and techniques. Preparation for pancreaticobiliary endoscopy -- Choloangiography and pancreatography -- Cannulation and sphinctertomy -- Endoscopic ultrasound and FNA for pancreatic and biliary disorders -- Endoscopic ultrasound-guided access and drainage of the pancreaticobiliary ductal systems -- Part 2: Benign Biliary Disorders. Gallstone disease: choledocholithiasis, cholecystitis, and gallstone pancreatitis -- Postoperative biliary strictures and leaks -- Infections of the biliary tract -- Sphincter of Oddi disorders -- Part 3: Benign pancreatic disorders. Recurrent acute pancreatitis -- Pancreatic fluid collections and leaks -- Chronic pancreatitis -- Part 4: Neoplastic pancreaticobiliary disorders. The indeterminate biliary stricture -- Pancreatic cystic lesions -- Evaluation and staging of pancreaticobiliary malignancy -- Palliation of malignant pancreaticobiliary obstruction."