Part I: Basic Laparoscopy and Endoscopy: General Principles
1. Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS)
Jeffrey M. Marks
2. Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
Jo Buyske
3. Equipment Setup and Troubleshooting
Mohan C. Airan
4. Ergonomics in Operating Room Design
Erica R. H. Sutton and Adrian E. Park
5. Access to Abdomen
Nathaniel J. Soper
6. Generation of Working Space: Extraperitoneal Approaches
David M. Brams and Amelia Husic
7. Single-Site Access Surgery
James A. Dickerson, Chan W. Park, and Aurora D. Pryor
8. Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery
Carol E. H. Scott-Connor
9. Laparoscopic Hemostasis: Energy Sources
James G. Bittner, IV, Michael M. Awad, and J. Esteban Varela
10. Laparoscopic Hemostasis: Hemostatic Products and Adjuncts
Thadeus L. Trus
11. Principles of Tissue Approximation: Suturing
William C. Beck and Michael D. Holzman
12. Other Devices for Tissue Approximation
Byron F. Santos and Eric S. Hungness
13. Documentation
Minh B. Luu and Daniel J. Deziel
14. Laparoscopic During Pregnancy
Carmen L. Mueller and Allan Okrainec
15. Previous Abdominal Surgery
Eric S. Hungness
16. Robotics in Laparoscopic and Thoracoscopic Surgery
Andreas Kirakopolous and W. Scott Melvin
Part II. Diagnostic Laparoscopy and Biopsy
17. Emergency Laparoscopy
Brian T. Valerian and Steven C. Stain
18. Elective Diagnostic Laparoscopy and Cancer Staging
Frederick L. Greene and Drew Honaker
19. Lymph Node Biopsy, Dissection, Staging Laparoscopy
Lee L. Swanstrom
Part III. Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and Common Duct Exploration
20. Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
Pradeep Pallati and Dmitry Oleynikov
21. Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Avoiding Complications Jessemae Walsh and Joseph J. Cullen
22. Cholangiography
Rahul Gupta, Daniel B. Jones, and Mark P. Callery
23. Laparoscopic Ultrasound of Biliary Tree
Michael Lalla and Maurice E. Arregui
24. Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration: Trancystic Duct Approach
Joseph B. Petelin and Timothy Mayfield
25. Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration (LCBDE) via Choledochotomy
Richard A. Alexander, Karla Russek, and Morris E. Franklin, Jr.
Part IV. Basic Laparoscopic Gastric Surgery
26. Laparoscopic Gastrostomy
Sajida Ahad and John D. Mellinger
27. Laparoscopic Plication of Perforated Ulcer
I. Bulent Cetindag and John D. Mellinger
Part V. Basic Laparoscopic Procedures of the Small Intestine, Appendix, Colon
28. Small Bowel Resection, Enterolysis and Enteroenterostomy
Bruce David Schirmer
29. Placement of Jejunostomy Tube
Bruce David Schirmer
30. Laparoscopic Appendectomy
Jessica K. Smith
31. Laparoscopic Colostomy
John Byrn
Part VI. Hernia Repair
32. Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair: Transabdominal Preperitoneal (TAPP) and Totally Extraperitoneal (TEP)
Nathanial Stoikes and L. Michael Brunt
33. Laparoscopic Repair of Ventral Hernia
Michael J. Rosen
Part VII. Pediatric Laparoscopy and Endoscopy
34. Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery: General Considerations
John J. Meehan
35. Pediatric Laparoscopy: Specific Surgical Procedures
John J. Meehan
36. Complications in Pediatric MIS
John J. Meehan
Part VIII. Flexible Endoscopy: General Principles
37. Flexible Endoscopes: Characteristics, Troubleshooting, Equipment Care
Gary C. Vitale and Brian R. Davis
38. Endoscopy Handling
Kevin M. El-Hayek, John Rodriguez, and Bipan Chand
39. Monitoring, Sedation, and Recovery
Jennifer Hrabe and Joseph J. Cullen
40. Flexible Endoscopy: Principles of Documentation
Raphael Sun and Joseph J. Cullen
Part IX. Flexible Endoscopy: Basic Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
41. Diagnostic Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Jarrod Wall and John D. Mellinger
42. Percutaneous Endoscopic Feeding Tube Placement
Melissa S. Phillips, Bipan Chand, and Jeffrey L. Ponsky
43. Capsule Enteroscopy
Jeremy A. Warren and Bruce V. MacFadyen, Jr.
Part X. Flexible Endoscopy: Basic Lower Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
44. Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
John A. Coller
45. Diagnostic Colonoscopy
Aman Banerjee, Melissa S. Phillips and Jeffrey M. Marks
46. Therapeutic Colonoscopy and Its Complications
Aaron S. Fink
APPENDIX: SAGES resources
SAGES Guidelines
SAGES Patient Education Material