Cholelithiasis: features and the physician's legal liability

Course curriculum

• Clinical guidelines. General issues
• The imperative of adhering to clinical guidelines
• Legal liability of a medical worker when choosing a treatment method, the role of forensic medical examination in resolving medical disputes
• Legal possibility of treatment outside clinical guidelines
• Guidelines: applicability within the territory of the Russian Federation
• Monitoring adherence to clinical guidelines in a medical institution
• Cholelithiasis, general issues
• Factors predisposing to gallstone formation
• Anatomy of the biliary system
• Complications of cholelithiasis: medical consequences for the patient and legal liability for the physician
• Severity degrees of harm to health (legal classification)
• Obstructive jaundice and hepatocellular insufficiency: risk factors, pathogenesis and clinical picture, legal liability of the physician
• Acute biliary pancreatitis: risk factors, pathogenesis and clinical presentation, legal liability of the physician
• The role of instrumental and drug-based lithotripsy in the genesis of cholelithiasis complications, and the legal liability of physicians, including those in non-surgical specialties
• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy: general issues
• Equipment for performing laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• Technique for performing laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• Rehabilitation in the postoperative period, diet therapy as an outdated method
• ERCP: general issues
• Endoscopic and radiological equipment for performing ERCP
• ERCP technique
• Myocardial dystrophy
• ERCP. Principal therapeutic techniques
• Endoscopic papillosphincterotomy and choledocholithiasis extraction
• Nasobiliary drainage
• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy using the Rendezvous technique
• Equipment for performing the procedure
• Technique for performing laparoscopic cholecystectomy using the Rendezvous method
• The course of the postoperative period