This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the art overview on the main trends in the newest endoscopic, robotic, and minimal invasive surgical innovations. It also aims to give insight on some of the innovative ideas around Gastro-intestinal Surgery and Endoscopy to stimulate further activities. It contains established knowledge in the field of endoscopic and surgical techniques, and the integration of these new findings in updated therapeutic decision making are demonstrated. The text reviews the latest literature on the subjects and describes the decision making to establish new therapeutic options in the management of diseases applying new technologies. These new techniques are described in detail, which provide excellent back-up information for clinicians in daily practice.
Written by experts in the field, Innovative Endoscopic and Surgical Technology in the GI Tract is a valuable resource of knowledge for clinicians, surgeons, nurses, technicians, students and researchers with an interest in GI- disease.

Overview of Current Robotic Technology

Challenges in robotic and minimally invasive pancreatic surgery in the year 2020
Challenges in Robotic Liver Surgery
Robotic Esophageal Surgery
Challenges in robotic colorectal surgery
Robotic flexible endoscopes
Robotized MIS instruments: filling the gap between rigid tools and large robotic systems
The Role of Endoscopic Technology in GastrointestinaI Surgery
Indication, Technique and Results of Endoscopic Cricomyotomy
Transesophageal Tunneling Technique and Peroral endoscopic Myotomy POEM
The EndoFLIP(TM) system allows a tailored peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for achalasia
G-POEM: A minimally invasive endoscopic technique for gastroparesis
Intraluminal Endoscopic Suturing System in the Esophagus with separate Instruments
ENDOSCOPIC SUTURING PLATFORMS FOR BARIATRIC PROCEDURES
Transgastric endoscopic interventions at the pancreas
Endoscopic Ultrasound guided Interventions
EFTR - ENDOSCOPIC FULL-THICKNESS RESECTION
New endoscopic tools for special indications
ESD - indications, techniques and results
The "Rendezvous"- principle in endoscopic and surgical procedures
Percutaneous endoscopic intragastric surgery in the treatment of stromal tumors at esophagogastric junction
Endoscopic-Surgical Platforms
The Fortimedix Surgical Endo-surgery Platform
Techniques and Challenges with the Master-Slave System for Endoscopic Surgery
Transgastric intraabdominal Surgery
Endoscopic Platforms
Transanal Microsurgery TEM and TEO
Transanal Endoscopic Colon Resections
The Medrobotics Platform for transanal surgery
The potential of single site surgery
New Single Site Platforms
Intraoperative imaging for procedures of the gastrointestinal tract
Fluorescence-Guided Surgery of the Biliary Tree Utilizing Indocyanine Green (ICG)
ICG Image-Guided Surgery with the Assessment for Anastomotic Safety
Advanced endoscopic imaging methods
The struggle to from idea to product
Artificial Intelligence.