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Summary

This is a pocket sized guide to the management of commonly presenting GI emergencies. The first part uses the symptom based approach and later sections cover procedures for managing specific conditions and complications including the latest techniques. There have been many significant advances in the practice of modern gastroenterology. Effective new treatments have been developed for gastrointestinal emergencies over the past three decades including gastrointestinal bleeding and biliary disease. The aim of this book is to provide a practical, up to date guide in the management of gastrointestinal emergencies.

Author Biography

John Moorehead is Consultant Surgeon, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi
PART I APPROACH TO SPECIFIC PRESENTATIONS
Acute dysphagia
3(8)
Vomiting
11(4)
Acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage
15(7)
Acute abdominal pain
22(4)
Jaundice
26(7)
Acute lower gastrointestinal haemorrhage
33(6)
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Diarrhoea
39(7)
PART II COMPLICATIONS OF GASTROINTESTINAL PROCEDURES
Introduction to section
46(1)
Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy
47(4)
PEG
51(4)
Variceal sclerotherapy, ligation and balloon tamponade
55(9)
ERCP
64(5)
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
69(5)
Liver biopsy
74(5)
Colonoscopy
79(6)
PART III SPECIFIC CONDITIONS
Foreign body impaction in the oesophagus
85(6)
Caustic ingestion to the oesophagus
91(4)
Oesophageal perforation
95(4)
Complications of oesophageal cancer
99(5)
Peptic ulcer perforation
104(5)
Gastric outlet obstruction
109(5)
Nonvariceal haemorrhage
114(9)
Acute pancreatitis
123(12)
Acute cholecystitis
135(7)
Biliary colic
142(2)
Cholangitis
144(8)
Variceal haemorrhage
152(8)
Acute liver failure
160(8)
Paracetamol toxicity
168(3)
Ascites
171(5)
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
176(3)
Alcoholic hepatitis
179(4)
Acute appendicitis
183(4)
Intestinal obstruction
187(11)
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Ischaemic bowel
198(5)
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Inflammatory bowel disease
203(13)
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Infectious diarrhoea
216(7)
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Diverticular disease
223(9)
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Acute lower gastrointestinal haemorrhage: specific conditions
232(5)
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Index 237

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