Endo Club Nord 2013.

USPA NEWS - From 01 to 02 November 2013 was held in the Congress Center Hamburg 21 ENDO CLUB NORD instead . ENDO CLUB NORD international forum for endoscopy. The two-day event at the CCH Hamburg also makes this year the capital of flexible endoscopy.

The aim of the conference : to replace more risky operations through gentle , minimally invasive procedures . Doctors from all over the world come to Hamburg to retrain at the International Forum for endoscopy on innovative technology and new processes . Endo Club Nord is a joint project of the Asklepios Klinik Altona, the Asklepios Clinic Barmbek and the University Hospital Eppendorf. The most important experts were invited back to demonstrate some of the latest achievements of endoscopy.

Broadcast live HDTV with the 3800 participants were able to follow every move and learn from the experts. The endoscopic procedures were transmitted in real time on a large screen and HD quality of the Asklepios Hospital Altona and Barmbek and the University Medical Center Hamburg- Eppendorf. Operated a total of over 30 renowned physicians with advanced endoscope and processor technology while leading the audience with technical discussions by the respective operations on site at CCH moderators.

After opening remarks, watch the live broadcast from the gastroenterological departments of the three participating hospitals began Hamburg . While camera crews accompanied the physicians in endoscopic procedures , pursued numerous doctors , assistant doctors , nurses and medical students handle any of the experts in HDTV. For twenty years now the ENDO CLUB NORD Endokospie is the highlight of the year.

"We are proud to have all the experts with top names in endoscopy as a guest ," says Prof. Dr. Friedrich Hagenmüller, chief physician of the Gastroenterological Clinic of the Asklepios Klinik Altona and Congress President . "Our event, which has been around since 1991 , has two main focuses : We demonstrate difficult interventions , which are rarely carried out so far . In addition to high-end technology we are doing but also about showing how each physician endoscopy can be active in their daily work easier , gentler and work economically . "

Hagenmüller , together with professor Dr. Siegbert Faiss , Chief of Gastroenterology at the Asklepios Klinik Barmbek and Prof. Dr. Thomas Roesch, Director of the Department of Interdisciplinary Endoscopy , University Hospital Hamburg -Eppendorf , President of Endo Club Nord. Hagen Müller , who was also the only founding member, was even perform together with a senior physician an unusual procedure.

In addition to the high-tech medicine but are also practical applications for the participating physicians in the focus of the event. So narrowing of the bowel were the mostly expensive with balloon catheters , as they are known from the treatment of coronary vessels expanded. Prof. Hagenmüller instead it uses in certain situations a so-called " bougie " one that is used with hand to dilate . Use it with the endoscope significant cost savings.

The Endo Club Nord was founded as a hands-on training forum for gastroenterological endoscopy by Prof. Nib Soehendra ( University Medical Center Hamburg -Eppendorf ), Prof. Dietmar Wurbs ( Asklepios Klinik Barmbek ) and Prof. Friedrich Hagenmüller ( Asklepios Klinik Altona ) in 1991. Today, the two-day forum for doctors , nurses and students is the largest practical training conference for endoscopy with over 3,800 participants annually . These come in 2013 from 26 countries , mainly from German , but also from the USA, Japan, Russia , Egypt and others.

Since June 2011, Olympus Medical Expert operates another training center in Hamburg. Olympus has developed in collaboration with the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf ( UKE ) and the Asklepios this new modern training center right on the premises of the UKE . 30-40 courses annually for healthcare professionals and Olympus employees take place there now - that makes 500-600 students per year . The center welcomes participants from all over the world.

The focus is on the areas of gastroenterology and bronchoscopy. Wissentschaftlichen the Advisory Board are the professors Dr. Friedrich Hagenmüller ( Asklepios Klinik Altona ), Thomas Rösch (UKE ) and Dr. Siegbert Faiss ( Asklepios Klinik Barmbek ). His name ENDO CLUB Olympus Academy 's commitment at the site of the ENDO CLUB NORD, has again taken place in November 2013 in Hamburg and now with its 3800 participants endoscopy is the highlight of the year.
Prof. h.c. Dr. h.c. Natalia Eitelbach of Philosophy, of European Science NCLC Institute USA.