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When you are caring for a patient with a gastrointestinal emergency – during a procedure or after emergency stabilization – you can count on this updated reference to supply the specific how-to guidance you need.
Written and edited by leading international experts in the field, the second edition of Gastrointestinal Emergencies:
All practitioners involved in gastrointestinal emergency care will find clear and succinct advice in this concise reference. Every Emergency Department and every endoscopy unit should keep a copy close at hand for quick reference.
Dr John Collins graduated from The Queen's University of Belfast in 1976. His postgraduate training in gastroenterology and internal medicine was completed in the RAF Medical Services, the Northern Ireland Deanery and in the Medical College of Wisconsin. He was appointed as Consultant Gastroenterologist to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast in 1990. He has research interests in H pylori, GORD and small bowel capsule endoscopy. He is a Past President of the Irish Society of Gastroenterolgy and is currently Secretary of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Roy Soetikno, MD, was promoted to associate professor of medicine (gastroenterology and hepatology) at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System through February 2008. He is a leader in advanced therapeutic endoscopy and endoscopic ultrasonography. He specializes in performing endoscopic surgery of early gastrointestinal cancer. Soetikno is chief of the endoscopy unit at the VA and associate chief of the gastrointestinal section.His educational background includes engineering, epidemiology, gastroenterology and technical expertise in endoscopy. Soetikno has an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Washington University (1985), a medical degree from the University of Chicago (1990) and a graduate degree in health sciences research from Stanford (1996). He later completed clinical and research fellowships in gastroenterology at Stanford, an advanced therapeutic endoscopy fellowship at Harvard and a fellowship in ultrasound and gastrointestinal oncology at UC-Irvine. He became an assistant professor at Stanford in 1999.
1. Approach to Dysphagia (John Collins).
2. Approach to Vomiting (Bee Chan Lee, John Collins).
3. Approach to Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding (Patrick Allen, Tony Tham).
4. Approach to Acute Abdominal Pain (Tony Tham).
5. Approach to Jaundice (Tony Tham).
6. Acute Severe Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding (Tonya Kaltenbach, Roy Soetikno).
7. Diarrhea (John Collins).
Section 2: Complications of Gastrointestinal Procedures.
8. Complications of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (Reza Shaker, Colm O`Loughlin).
9. Complications of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (Freddy Vandenbussche, Jo Vandervoort).
10. Complications of Variceal Sclerotherapy, Ligation and Balloon Tamponade (Yan Zhong, Stefan Seewald, Nib Soehendra).
11. ERCP Complications (Victor Chen, Richard Wong).
12. Complications of Laparoscopic Surgery (Stephen Attwood).
13. Liver biopsy (Ramsey Cheung).
14. Complications of Colonoscopy (Sybile Van Lierde, Jo Vandervoort).
15. Capsule Endoscopy Complications (Ma. Cecilia Sison, Andres Sanchez Yagüe, Kenneth Binmoeller, Roy Soetikno).
16. Endoscopic Ultrasound Complications (Ma. Cecilia Sison, Andres Sanchez Yagüe, Kenneth Binmoeller, Roy Soetikno).
Section 3: Specific Conditions.
17. Foreign Body Impaction in the Esophagus (George Triadafilopoulos).
18. Esophageal Perforation (Peter Siersema).
19. Perforation of the GI tract (John Moorehead, Ian McAllister).
20. Intestinal Obstruction (Andrew Crumley, Robert Stuart).
21. Management of Acute Upper Non-Variceal Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage (Kelvin Palmer).
22. Acute Pancreatitis (David Lichtenstein).
23. Biliary Emergencies (David Carr-Locke, Bhavani Moparty).
24. Variceal Hemorrhage (Yan Zhong, Stefan Seewald, Nib Soehendra).
25. Acute Liver Failure (Aijaz Ahmed, Emmet Keeffe).
26. Management of Ascites and Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (Andrés Cárdenas, Pere Ginès).
27. Alcoholic Hepatitis (David Patch).
28. Acute Appendicitis (John Moorehead, Ian McAllister).
29. Ischemic Bowel (Shai Friedland, Roy Soetikno).
30. Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Subrata Ghosh).
31. Infectious Diarrhea (John Collins, Graham Morrison).
32. Diverticular Disease (Tonya Kaltenbach, Roy Soetikno).
33. Gastrointestinal Complications of HIV Disease (Wallace Dinsmore, Afshin Nasoodi).
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