Quality in Endoscopy: colonoscopy and colonic neoplasms

Programme

Thursday May 3, 2012
16.00 - 19.00
  • Registration
Friday May 4, 2012
08.15
  • Official opening
  • Thierry Ponchon
Chairpersons: Evelien Dekker, Brian Saunders, Thomas Seufferlein
SESSION 1: PREPARATION FOR COLONOSCOPY
08.30
  • Bowel cleansing: The modern prep methods? Are scales necessary?
  • Brian Saunders
08.50
  • Management of antiplatelet therapy and anticoagulants
  • Christian Boustiere
Session 2: Approaching the caecum
09.10
  • Tricks, tools, new instruments to approach the caecum (the optimal way to acquire colonoscopy skills)
  • Siwan Thomas-Gibson
09.30
  • How to record success and is it necessary?
  • Michael Bretthauer
09.50
  • Case presentations and discussion with audience participation
10.30
  • Coffee break and poster presentation
Session 3: Indications
11.00
  • Colorectal cancer: Different risk levels
  • Thierry Ponchon
11.20
  • THE GREAT DEBATE 1: Colorectal mass screening programme
  • Colonoscopy first:      Jaroslaw Regula
  • Sigmoidoscopy first:   Brian Saunders
  • Biological test first:     Thomas Seufferlein
  • (FOBT, i-FOBT, DNA)
  • Discusion leader:      Michael Bretthauer
12.00
  • Case presentations and discussion with audience participation
12.30
  • Lunch and poster presentation
Chairpersons: Christian Boustiere, Jaroslaw Regula, Siwan Thomas-Gibson
Session 4: Diagnosis
13.30
  • Missed and interval carcinomas: The truth
  • Michael Kaminski
13.50
  • New lesions: histological definitions and endoscopic patterns
    a) Serrated
    b) Non polypoid including LST
    c) Depressed carcinomas
  • Ana Ignjatovic, Michael Vieth
14.20
  • Quality control: The best parameter and how to follow it
  • Roland Valori
14.50
  • Case presentations and discussion with audience participation
15.20
  • Coffee break and poster presentation
15.50
  • How to improve adenoma detection
  • a) Through technology: dye chromoscopy, electronic chromoscopy, HD, enlarged field of view, cap, third eye, etc.
  • Ralph Kiesslich
  • b) Through better technique
  • James East
16.30
  • The role of biomarkers to individualise treatment of colorectal cancer
  • Thomas Seufferlein
16.50
  • THE GREAT DEBATE 2: Polyp characterization
  • I characterize (how and when):   Ana Ignjatovic
  • I do not characterize, I remove:   Raf Bisshops
  • Discusion leader:                      Brian Saunders
17.30
  • Case presentations and discussion with audience participation
18.00
  • Adjourn
Saturday May 5, 2012
Chairpersons: Michael Bretthauer, Ana Ignjatovic, Roland Valori
Session 5: Alternatives to colonoscopy
08.30
  • CT and MR colonography: Is there a future?
  • Jaap Stoker
08.50
  • THE GREAT DEBATE 3: Colon capsule will replace diagnostic colonoscopy
  • PRO:                                    Cesare Hassan
  • CON:                                    Adam Haycock
  • Discusion leader:               Thierry Ponchon
09.30
  • The new Colonoscopes: Latest developments
  • James East
09.50
  • Case presentations and discussion with audience participation
10.30
  • Coffee break and poster presentation
Session 6: Treatment
11.00
  • Diminutive polyps: The optimal treatment?
  • Siwan Thomas-Gibson
11.20
  • Difficult polypectomy: Video cases
  • Evelien Dekker
11.40
  • EMR: the optimal technique: Video cases
  • Raf Bisshops, Alessandro Repici
12.00
  • How to manage bleeding (clip vs electrocoagulation) and perforation (clip vs. surgery): Video cases
  • Brian Saunders
12.20
  • Case presentations and discussion with audience participation
13.00
  • Lunch and poster presentation
Chairpersons: Raf Bisschops, Thomas Seufferlein, Michael Vieth
14.00
  • The malignant adenoma: When to recommend surgery?
  • Evelien Dekker
14.20
  • THE GREAT DEBATE 4: ESD should replace piecemeal EMR in colorectum
  • PRO:                                    Alessandro Repici
  • CON:                                    Thierry Ponchon
  • Discusion leader:               Brian Saunders
15.00
  • THE GREAT DEBATE 5: Colorectal stenting for advanced colorectal carcinoma
  • PRO:                                    Alessandro Repici
  • CON:                                    Philippe Rougier
  • Discusion leader:               Michael Bretthauer
15.40
  • Case presentations and discussion with audience participation
16.00
  • Closing words
  • Thomas Seufferlein