Past Webinars

This webinar featuring Dr. Prateek Sharma and Dr. Douglas Rex focuses on tips for performing difficult colonoscopies and covers various challenges encountered during the procedure. Dr. Rex provides detailed advice on handling anatomical issues like redundant colons and severely angulated sigmoids, emphasizing the importance of choosing the correct scope, using water immersion, and effective abdominal pressure. He also addresses critical safety concerns such as avoiding barotrauma perforations and splenic injury, offering practical recognition and prevention strategies. The discussion highlights the limitations of radiographic studies for polyp detection in complex cases and underscores the value of precise documentation for future attempts.

This webinar by Dr. Uma Mahadevan on inflammatory bowel diseases, highlights new pharmaceutical agents, their efficacy against each other, and guidelines for choosing therapies based on patient factors, disease severity, and comorbidities. It also explores the role of diet and surgery as treatment options, discusses the emergence of biosimilars and biobetters, and outlines treatment algorithms for both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, including considerations for pregnancy and extraintestinal manifestations. The overall goal is to provide practical, up-to-date knowledge for managing IBD patients in clinical practice.

Dr. Prakash Gyawali delivers a masterclass on esophageal motility disorders, focusing on practical diagnosis and management for clinicians. Dr. Gyawali stresses the need for individualized treatment, careful counseling, and the use of both medical and behavioral therapies for non-actionable disorders. 

This webinar, led by Dr. Alan Barkun, delivers a comprehensive, evidence-based update on the management of non-variceal upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. The session covers risk stratification, resuscitation, timing of endoscopy, and the latest guideline recommendations for both acute and refractory cases.