Description
Book SynopsisPocket-sized reference covers all pertinent aspects of gastrointestinal endoscopy. Provides discussions on informed concept, conscious sedation and monitoring, basic principles, the benign and malignant esophagus, gastrointestinal foreign bodies, lasers in endoscopy, and more.
Table of ContentsInformed consent; conscious sedation and monitoring; cleaning and disinfection of endoscopes and accessories; antibiotic prophylaxis; principles of electrocautery; EGD - benign oesophagus; EGD - malignant oesophagus; EGD - stomach; oesophageal manometry; 24-hour pH testing; foreign bodies in the GI tract; endoscopic management of non-variceal upper GI bleeding; endoscopic management of lower GI bleeding; endoscopic management of variceal bleeding; lasers in endoscopy; endoscopy of the pregnant patient; PEG/PEJ; small bowel endoscopy; flexible sigmoidoscopy; colonoscopy; ERCP - introduction, equipment, normal anatomy; ERCP - benign diseases of the gall bladder and bile ducts; ERCP - malignant diseases of the pancreas, gall bladder and bile ducts; ERCP in benign pancreatic disease; endoscopic ultrasound - tumour staging; endoscopic ultrasound - submucosal tumours and thickened gastric folds; endoscopic ultrasound of the gall bladder and pancreas; liver biopsy; endoscopy of the paediatric patient.
