BLK-Max Hospital collaborates with Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy to discuss the Advanced Endoscopic Practices

New Delhi: BLK-Max Super Specialty Hospital has collaborated with the Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, India (SGEI) to discuss the advancement in endoscopic practices.

BLK-Max Super Specialty Hospital organized a two-day event on the 1st and 2nd April, 2023, to shed light on endoscopic practices.

The two-day conference featured some of the top doctors in the nation and featured lectures, discussions, and live demonstrations of the techniques emphasizing on technical know-how.

The event was focused on "Luminal strictures" and highlighted the literature available to treat various disorders causing narrowing of the lumen of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine. Dr. Ajay Kumar, Chairman, Pan Max & HOD, Institute for Digestive & Liver Diseases, BLK-Max Super Specialty Hospital served as the event's host.

Topics like colon, achalasia cardia, and narrowing of the lumen of the oesophagus strictures were included as the topic of the first day. There were also presentations on actual case studies and an engaging talk on the evolution of the treatment of luminal strictures by a number of eminent medical professionals. Day two's lectures focused on issues with gastric outlet obstruction and the small bowel. The day ended with another lecture on ‘Antifibrotic therapies for stricture – is there a future’. 

Dr. Ajay Kumar, Chairman of Pan Max and Head of the Institute for Digestive and Liver Diseases at BLK-Max Super Specialty, gave a speech at the event and informed Indian Education Diary, “Through this collaboration, we aim to educate and innovate ways to advancing patient care by identifying key areas of improvement while finding new, safer, and more cost-effective ways to treat patients. The program is designed with the purpose of updating the latest research and technical nuances that will enable us to provide the best care possible."

This conference on "Luminal Strictures" will aid academicians in identifying future research areas of interest that need to be studied. It will also provide necessary information to medical students just beginning to treat these patients and gastroenterologists already treating them. In order to make these operations safe and affordable for patients, it will also encourage the industry to develop and create new devices.