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ESGE DAYS
2023

Hands-On Training

The ultimate training tool!

*Due to enthusiastic interest in our hands-on training, as of March 1, 2023, these sessions are now fully sold out. Onsite delegates are welcome to check at the 'HOT' registration desk onsite to see whether any cancellations have taken place and spots have become available. We wish all participants an enriching learning experience.* 

ESGE Days 2023 hands-on training sessions are designed to provide participants with the opportunity to put what they learn during lectures into practice. Available only to delegates at the on-site congress in Dublin, these small group, expert-led sessions will cover a variety of topics which are encountered during daily practice.

To maximize contact between tutors and participants, the group sizes are strictly limited. Courses can only be booked in conjunction with the hybrid package. Participants may book more than one course - please ensure that course bookings do not overlap.

New for 2023:

We are providing cutting-edge training sessions on 7 exciting new procedures. Book early to ensure a place! 

Schedule for all hands-on training sessions
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Regular procedures, with experience requirements:

  • What it’s about

    • Lesion delineation, characterization and lifting
    • Cap selection and fixation
    • Positioning of the crescent snare in the cap
    • Perpendicular and centered lesion approach for suction and snare closure
    • Hemostasis during EMR

    You should have experience with

    • Endoscope tip and space control
    • Polypectomy, cap and rubber band ligation techniques
    • Hemostasis and endoclipping techniques (be able to prevent and manage complications)

  • What it’s about

    • EUS machine operation and set-up, use of tip balloon and luminal water
    • Radial EUS of epigastrium
    • Linear EUS of epigastrium
    • Staging luminal cancer and subepithelial lesions
    • Extraluminal mass identification

    You should have experience with

    • Insertion and manipulation of side-viewing scope
    • Basic indications of EUS
    • Basic knowledge of anatomy of epigastrium and rectum

  • What it’s about

    • Biliary cannulation
    • Sphincterotomy
    • Guide-wire accessory exchange
    • Stone extraction with Dormia basket and balloon
    • Biliary plastic and metal stenting
    • Retrieval of stents

    You should have experience with

    • Insertion and advancement of side-viewing scope
    • Use of scope tip control and torque technique
    • Use of elevator (Albaran), Vater papilla identification

  • What it’s about

    • Injection therapy
    • Mechanical hemostasis (clipping, ligation, endoloops)
    • Ligation of varices
    • Thermocoagulation
    • Argon plasma coagulation

    You should have experience with

    • Insertion and advancement of front-viewing scope
    • Use of scope tip control and torque technique
    • Lumen identification

  • What it’s about

    • Techniques with respect to polyp size
    • Positioning of the polyp
    • Use of cold and hot biopsy forceps and cold snare
    • Electro cautery and snare designs
    • Use of pre-snare injections and endoloops
    • Lifting techniques and non-lifting sign
    • Use of polypectomy snares
    • Tissue retrieval techniques

    You should have experience with

    • Insertion and advancement of front-viewing scope
    • Use of scope tip control and torque technique
    • Lumen identification

  • What it’s about

    • Subepithelial or extraluminal lesion identification
    • Endoscope positioning
    • Selection of appropriate needle
    • Techniques of needle aspiration/biopsy
    • Sample handling

    You should have experience with

    • Insertion and advancement of EUS scope
    • Indications for EUS-FNA

  • What it’s about

    • Lesion marking and lifting
    • Cap selection and fixation, knife selection
    • Mucosal cutting
    • Submucosal dissection (layer recognition)
    • Hemostasis during ESD

    You should have experience with

    • Good endoscope tip and space control
    • Advanced polypectomy and EMR techniques
    • Hemostasis and endoclipping techniques (be able to manage complications: bleeding, perforation)
    • Settings of an electrosurgical unit

  • What it’s about

    • Submucosal injection in esophagus
    • Mucosal incision
    • Submucosal dissection to produce a tunnel
    • Myotomy
    • Mucosal incision site closure

    You should have experience with

    • Indications of endoscopic myotomy
    • Knowledge of alternative techniques
    • Submucosal injection
    • Use of knife for submucosal dissection
    • Use of endoclips

  • What it’s about

    • Indications / contraindications
    • Aseptic technique
    • Gastrostomy and evaluation of gastric anatomy
    • Percutaneous access
    • Ponsky-Gauderer push-pull methodology of PEG placement

    You should have experience with

    • Gastroscopy
    • Use of polyp snare and / or foreign body forceps
    • Use of percutaneous needle


Cutting-edge procedures, with experience requirements:

  • What it’s about

    • Treatment of Barrett’s related dysplasia or early adenocarcinoma
    • Balloon-based or focal radiofrequency ablation procedure

    You should have experience with

    • Gastroscopy
    • Endoscopic diagnosis of Barrett’s esophagus
    • EMR techniques of esophagus

  • What it’s about

    • single operation technique and handling
    • Insertion of an ultraslim endoscope directly into the bile duct for visualization of the biliary mucosa
    • Endoscopic identification of biliary strictures
    • Biopsy of indeterminate biliary stricture

    You should have experience with

    • ERCP
    • Biliary cannulation techniques
    • intraductal indirect sampling

  • What it’s about

    • single operation technique and handling
    • Insertion of an ultraslim endoscope directly into the bile duct for visualization of the intraductal stones
    • targeted lithotripsy of CBD stones

    You should have experience with

    • ERCP
    • Biliary cannulation techniques
    • CBD stone extraction and lithotripsy methods

  • What it’s about

    • Fluid collections in the peripancreatic tissue associated with acute or chronic pancreatitis
    • Transmural drainage of pancreatic fluid collections associated with symptoms (epigastric pain, obstructive jaundice, vomiting due to gastric outlet obstruction, sepsis, etc.)
    • EUS-guide transmural placement of stent(s) for drainage

    You should have experience with

    • ERCP
    • EUS
    • Guide-wire manipulation
    • Enteral / biliary stent placement

  • What it’s about

    • EUS-guided transmural drainage of a bile
    • Alternative to percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) if ERCP fails
    • Intrahepatic approach (hepatogastric anastomosis or antegrade stent placement)
    • Extrahepatic approach (choledochoduodenostomy or transgallbladder)

    You should have experience with

    • ERCP
    • EUS-guided drainage of pancreatic fluid collections
    • Guidewire manipulation
    • Enteral / biliary stent placement

  • What it’s about

    • EUS-guided portal pressure gradient measurement for evaluation of portal hypertension
    • Insertion of a 25 G needle into the portal vein and hepatic vein under EUS guidance
    • Calculating the pressure gradient
    • Targeted tissue acquisition of the liver under EUS guidance

    You should have experience with

    • EUS
    • EUS-guided sampling (FNA/FNB)

  • What it’s about

    • Endoscopic evaluation and treatment of small bowel lesions
    • “Deep” enteroscopy using the motorized spiral tool

    You should have experience with

    • Push enteroscopy
    • Deep enteroscopy techniques (double balloon, single balloon)
    • Biopsy and polypectomy techniques
    • Endoscopic hemostasis


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