Bowel Dysfunction A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Professionals /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Collins, Brigitte (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Bradshaw, Elissa (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Nursing.; Rectum > Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Colorectal Surgery.

This definitive guide for healthcare professionals looks at functional disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and pelvic floor, as well as the treatments used within the current healthcare context. The chapters help the readers to access and understand relevant information within a variety of clini...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part 1. Introduction
• 1. Background to bowel function and rationale for writing the book
• 2. Normal anatomy and physiology of bowel function with a view to including detail on the pelvic floor
• 3. Epidemiology Constipation and FI
• 4. Investigations: Anorectal Physiology
• Part 2. Causes and Assessment of Bowel Dysfunction
• 5. Causes of constipation/evacuatory dysfunction
• 6. The Assessment of Constipation and Evacuatory Disorders
• 7. Causes of faecal incontinence
• 8. The Assessment of Faecal Incontinence
• Part 3. Treatments for Bowel Dysfunction
• 9. Conservative management
• 10. Food choice as a Management Strategy in Bowel Dysfunction
• 11. Pharmacological therapy
• 12. Rectal Irrigation
• 13. Neuromodulation
• 14. Surgery
• 15. Psychological medicine for bowel dysfunction. .