The SAGES Manual

Part One: Laparoscopy - General Principles; 1) Equipment Setup and Troubleshooting; 2) Patient Preparation; 3) Anesthesia and Monitoring;4) Access to Abdomen; 5) Generation and Maintenance of Working Space; 5.1) Pneumoperitoneum ; 5.2) Abdominal Wall Lift Devices; 5.3) Generation of Working Space: Extraperitoneal Approaches; 6) Principles of Laparoscopic Hemostasis; 7) Principles of Tissue Approximation; 8) Principles of Removal of Specimens and Solid Organs; 9) Documentation; 10) Special Problems ; 10.1) Massive Obesity ; 10.2) Laparoscopy During Pregnancy ; 10.3) Previous Abdominal Surgery ; Part Two: Diagnostic Laparoscopy and Biopsy ; 11) Emergency Laparoscopy ; 12) Elective Diagnostic Laparoscopy and Cancer Staging ; Part Three: Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and Common Duct Exploration ; 13) Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy ; 13.1 and 13.2) Indications and Patient Preparation ; 13.3) Surgical Technique ; 13.3.1) Avoiding Complications ; 13.3.4) Cholangiography ; 13.3.3) Ultrasound and Doppler ; 14) Laparoscopic Common Duct Exploration ; 14.1) Transcystic Duct ; 14.2) VIa Laparoscopic Choledochotomy; 15) Complications ; Part Four: Hiatal Hernia Repair and Heller Myotomy ; 16) Hiatal Hernia Repair ; 17) Heller Myotomy ; Part Five: Laparoscopic Gastric Surgery ; 18) Gastrostomy ; 19) Vagotomy ; 20) Plication of Perforated Ulcer ; 21) Gastric Resections ; 22) Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery; Part Six: Laparoscopic Procedures on the Small Intestine, Appendix and Colon ; 23) Small Bowel Resection ; 24) Placement of Jejunostomy ; 25) Laparoscopic Appendectomy ; 26) Colostomy ; 27) Laparoscopic Segmental Colectomies, Anterior Resection and Abdominoperineal Resection ; 28) Abdominoperineal Resection, Proctocolectomy, and Related Procedures ; Part Seven: Laparoscopic Approaches to the Pancreas, Spleen, and Retroperitoneum ; 29) Distal Pancreatectomy ; 30) Laparoscopic Cholecystojejunostomy ; 31) Splenectomy ; 32) Lymph Node Biopsy; Dissection, and Staging Laparotomy ; 33) Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy; Part Eight: Hernia Repair ; 34) Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair ; 35) Laparoscopic Repair of Ventral Hernia ; Part Nine: Pediatric Laparoscopy ; 36) General Complications ; 37) Specific Surgical Complications ; 38) Complications: Section II: Flexible Endoscopy; Part One: Flexible Endoscopy: General Principles ; 39) Characteristics of Flexible Endoscopes, Troubleshooting, and Equipment ; 40) Endoscope Healing ; 41) Monitoring, Sedation, and Recovery ; Part Two: Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ; 42) Diagnostic Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ; 43) Control of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding ; 43.1.1) Variceal Banding ; 43.1.2) Sclerotherapy of Variceal Bleeding ; 43.1.3) Control of Non-Variceal Upper GI Bleeding ; 43.2-5) Polypectomy ; 43.6.1-2) Percutaneous Endoscopic Feeding Tube Placement ; 44) Complications of Upper Gastrointestinal Feeding Tube Placement ; Part Three: Small Bowel Enteroscopy ; 45) Indications, Technique, and Complications ; Part Four: Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography ; 46) Diagnostic ERCP ; 46.1) Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography ; 46.2) Surgically Altered Anatomy and Special Considerations ; 47) Cannulation and Cholangiopancreatography ; 48) Therapeutic ERCP; 49) Complications of ERCP ; Part Five: Choledoschopy; 50) Diagnostic Choledochoscopy ; 51) Therapeutic Choledochoscopy and Its Complications; Part Six: Flexible Sigmoidoscopy ; 52) Flexible Sigmoidoscopy ; 53) Therapeutic Flexible Sigmoidoscopy ; Part Seven: Colonoscopy ; 54) Diagnostic Colonoscopy ; 55) Therapeutic Colonoscopy, Complications of Colonoscopy ; Part Eight: Pediatric Endoscopy ; 56) Pediatric Gastrointestinal Endoscopy; Appendices.