State of the Art Consensus Conference on Prevention of Bile Duct Injury During Cholecystectomy

The conference will provide a detailed evidence-based review of the current challenges and advances in reducing bile duct injuries (BDI) that occur during laparoscopic cholecystectomy and result in recommendations that should have a significant impact on future surgical practice and surgical research in this field.
International experts will convene to focus on management strategies and techniques surgeons can employ to reduce the incidence of this complication across the entire spectrum of gallstone disease, with the goal of establishing best practices and improve patient safety for this common operation. Attendees will participate in the discussions and voting on recommendations. The consensus conference proceedings will be used to generate practice guidelines manuscripts for publication in major surgical journals.
The conference, jointly hosted by the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA), the European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons (EAES), the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA), the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT), is expected to attract general surgeons, GI, HPB, community and international surgeons and is open to the public.