COURSE DESCRIPTION
This annual hands-on international symposium which includes a half-day surgical skills lab, is designed to educate attendees on the management of complex cases that need advanced interventional endoscopy care, emphasizing excellence of care, safety, and a multidisciplinary approach for both academic medicine and private practice endoscopy providers. CADEC will review, innovate, and share new upcoming procedures and devices to treat patients in need of minimally invasive endoscopic interventions with cutting edge technology.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
- Demonstrate effective and safe interventional endoscopy procedures to achieve optimal results, reduce complications and improve overall outcomes.
- Review evidence-based management and expert opinions in therapeutic endoscopy to improve patient care.
- Consolidate the indications, contraindications, procedure outcomes, management of complications, and techniques of therapeutic endoscopy to apply in the management of challenging cases with complex gastrointestinal tract disease.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This course is designed for health care providers practicing endoscopy including gastroenterologists, general and colorectal surgeons, advanced endoscopists and trainees, nurses and technicians.
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE GAP(S)
Managing patients that need advanced or interventional endoscopy procedures requires multidisciplinary coordination, appropriate training and expertise. Technological advances have enhanced access to care for patients and improved physician interactions. Staying up-to-date with the latest endoscopic treatment modalities to provide the highest level of care to patients remains a constant struggle. Healthcare providers need to review, access, critique, synthesize medical knowledge, and get hands-on exposure related to the most advanced endoscopic therapies and apply it to direct patient care.
KNOWLEDGE NEED
Advanced endoscopy therapies are in constant change and improvement as new treatment modalities and device devel- opment continues to grow. The Cleveland Clinic has a large and internationally recognized advanced endoscopy physician faculty complement, which involves all fields of advanced and interventional endoscopy: Endoscopic Bariatric and Metabolic Therapies (EBMTs), Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) and other endoscopic resection techniques, interventional Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS), pancreatobiliary endoscopy [Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), cholangioscopy], Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication (TIF) and other endoscopic anti-reflux techniques, to name a few. There is a significant need for a state-of-the-art advanced endoscopy hands-on course designed to educate endoscopist providers and trainees on these ground-breaking endoscopic therapies to improve patient care and continue to advance the field.