GI Endoscopic Emergencies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wong Kee Song, Louis M. (Editor), Gorospe, Emmanuel C. (Editor), Baron, Todd H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Minimally invasive surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Minimally Invasive Surgery.

This volume provides a concise, yet comprehensive, state-of-the art overview of GI endoscopic emergencies.  Although the emphasis is on endoscopic management, peri-procedural considerations, adjunctive medical therapy, and clinical approaches to commonly encountered GI emergencies are discussed in d...

Table of Contents:

• Triage Sedation and Monitoring
• Peri-procedural Management of Antithrombotic Agents
• Suspected Non-variceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
• Approach to Suspected Acute Variceal Bleeding
• Suspected Small Intestinal Hemorrhage
• Suspected Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
• Approach to Foreign Body Ingestion, Food Impaction and Caustic Injury
• Non-endoscopic Management of Acute Mechanical Colonic Obstruction and Pseudo-obstruction
• Approach to Acute Cholangitis
• Approach to Endoscopic Adverse Events
• Endoscopic Hemostasis of Acute Non-Variceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
• Hemostasis of Acute Esophageal Variceal Bleeding
• Hemostasis of Acute Gastric Variceal Bleeding
• Hemostasis of Acute Small Intestinal Bleeding
• Hemostasis of Acute Lower GI Bleeding
• Endoscopic Management of Food Impaction and Foreign Bodies
• Endoscopic Management of Acute Colonic Obstruction and Pseudo-obstruction
• Endoscopic Management of Pancreaticobiliary Emergencies
• Endoscopic Management of Procedure-related Bleeding and Perforation.