Equipment Setup and Troubleshooting -- Access to Abdomen -- Abdominal Wall Lift Devices -- Generation of Working Space: Extraperitoneal Approaches -- Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery -- Principles of Laparoscopic Hemostasis -- Principles of Tissue Approximation -- Principles of Specimen Removal -- Documentation -- Laparoscopy During Pregnancy -- Previous Abdominal Surgery -- Robotics in Laparoscopic and Thoracoscopic Surgery -- Emergency Laparoscopy -- Elective Diagnostic Laparoscopy and Cancer Staging -- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy -- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Avoiding Complications -- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Cholangiography -- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Ultrasound for Choledocholithiasis -- Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration: Transcystic Duct Approach -- Common Bile Duct Exploration via Laparoscopic Choledochotomy -- Complications of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and Laparoscopic Common Duct Exploration -- Laparoscopic Treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Hiatal Hernia -- Laparoscopic Paraesophageal Hernia Repair -- Laparoscopic Cardiomyotomy (Heller Myotomy) -- Operations for Esophageal Diverticula -- Laparoscopic Gastrostomy -- Laparoscopic Plication of Perforated Ulcer -- Gastric Resections -- Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery: Principles of Patient Selection and Choice of Operation -- Instrumentation, Room Setup, and Adjuncts for Laparoscopy in the Morbidly Obese -- Laparoscopic Gastric Banding -- Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass -- Other Laparoscopic Procedures for Obesity -- Complications of Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery -- Small Bowel Resection, Enterolysis, and Enteroenterostomy -- Placement of Jejunostomy Tube -- Laparoscopic Appendectomy -- Laparoscopic Colostomy -- Laparoscopic Segmental Colectomies, Anterior Resection, and Abdominoperineal Resection -- Laparoscopic-Assisted Proctocolectomy with Ileal-Pouch-Anal Anastomosis -- Laparoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease -- Distal Pancreatectomy -- Laparoscopic Cholecystojejunostomy and Gastrojejunostomy -- Laparoscopic Splenectomy -- Lymph Node Biopsy, Dissection, and Staging Laparoscopy -- Laparoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy -- Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy -- Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair: Transabdominal Preperitoneal (TAPP) and Totally Extraperitoneal (TEP) -- Laparoscopic Repair of Ventral Hernia -- Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery: General Considerations -- Pediatric Laparoscopy: Specific Surgical Procedures -- Complications -- Pediatric Thoracoscopy -- Pediatric Robotic Surgery -- Flexible Endoscopes: Characteristics, Troubleshooting, and Equipment Care -- Endoscope Handling -- Monitoring, Sedation, and Recovery -- Diagnostic Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy -- Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy After Bariatric Surgery -- Therapeutic Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy -- Variceal Banding -- Sclerotherapy of Variceal Bleeding -- Control of Nonvariceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding -- Endoluminal Approaches to Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease -- Percutaneous Endoscopic Feeding Tube Placement -- Complications of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy -- Small Bowel Enteroscopy -- Capsule Endoscopy -- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography -- Surgically Altered Anatomy and Special Considerations -- Therapeutic Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography -- Therapeutic Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography -- Complications of Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography -- Diagnostic Choledochoscopy -- Therapeutic Choledochoscopy and Its Complications -- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy -- Therapeutic Flexible Sigmoidoscopy -- Diagnostic Colonoscopy -- Therapeutic Colonoscopy and Its Complications -- Pediatric Gastrointestinal Endoscopy -- Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery: Basic Concepts -- Exploratory Thoracoscopy for Staging of Malignancies -- Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy -- Thoracodorsal Sympathectomy and Splanchnicectomy -- VATS Management of the Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodule -- Pleural Disease.