Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Jacques Van Dam

Informed 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.