THERAPEUTIC COLONOSCOPY WORKSHOP

Date of course: July 3rd 2009
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With the advent of bowel cancer screening, effective management of early colonic cancer and pre cancer has never been more important. All colonoscopists and endoscopy nurses need to be comfortable with the basics of polypectomy and be aware of advanced therapeutic techniques such as P-EMR and ESD. This one day workshop will involve a comprehensive and intensive overview of current resection techniques and will include state-of-the-art lectures, mini-seminars, Q and A sessions as well as live demonstrations.

This workshop is the first of a series of three describing key elements of therapeutic endoscopy. Workshops 2 & 3 will cover the challenges of endoscopic stricture management and gastrointestinal bleeding (dates to be announced).

9:00 Coffee & registration
9:25 Welcome: Dr Brian Saunders

Therapy for colonic neoplasms (Chair - Dr Brian Saunders)
9:30 Simple polypectomy - technique and accreditation (Dr Siwan Thomas-Gibson)
Diathermy, basic principles, including how to deal with large, stalked polyps
10:00 Piecemeal EMR / hybrid ESD (Dr Brian Saunders)
10:30 ESD (Dr Noriko Suzuki)
11:00 Coffee

The malignant polyp (Chair - Dr Brian Saunders)
11:30 The endoscopists view (Dr James East)
How to find, assess and which to take?
11:50 The surgery for early colorectal cancer (Mr Robin Kennedy)
and enhanced recovery
12:10 Histology: interpretation and consequences (Prof Thomas Guenther)

Future treatment for colorectal neoplasms (Chair - Dr Chris Fraser)
12:30 NOTES and sentinel node biopsy (Mr Ronan Cahill)
13:00 Lunch

Live demonstration (Chair - Dr Siwan Thomas-Gibson & Dr Chris Fraser)
14:00 Live cases of EMR/ESD/polypectomy (Dr Brian Saunders, Dr Noriko Suzuki)
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Live cases (Dr BP Saunders and Dr N Suzuki)

Video cases including complications (Chair - Dr Noriko Suzuki & Dr Brian Saunders)
16:30 What do you do next?
17:00 Close

As places are limited a cheque for £200 (£150 for nurses) made payable to NPIMR is required to secure your place.

Please send directly to:
Course Administration
Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy
St. Mark's Hospital
Northwick Park, Watford Road,
Harrow, Middlesex. HA1 3UJ

Telephone: 020 8235 4203 Facsimile: 020 8423 3588 Mobile: 07752 536960
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St. Mark's Hospital cannot accept liability for costs incurred in the event of a course having to be cancelled as a result of circumstances beyond its reasonable control.

Course Directors: Dr BP Saunders and Dr N Suzuki
Consultant Gastroenterologists, St. Mark's Hospital, Middlesex