Gastrointestinal Emergencies is the definitive reference guide for the management of gastrointestinal emergencies and endoscopic complications!

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.

Features of Gastrointestinal Emergencies, 2nd edition:

• now reflects the many diagnostic and therapeutic advances since publication of the first edition
• covers the full range of gastrointestinal emergencies encountered in daily clinical practice
• gives evidence-based approaches to the presentation, diagnosis, investigation, and management of patients
• features the important contributions of new editor Roy Soetikno, Associate Professor of Medicine at the VA Health Care System, Palo Alto, California

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.

Contents

Section 1: Approach to Specific Presentations

1. Approach to Dysphagia
2. Approach to Vomiting
3. Approach to Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
4. Approach to Acute Abdominal Pain
5. Approach to Jaundice
6. Acute Severe Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
7. Diarrhea

Section 2: Complications of Gastrointestinal Procedures

8. Complications of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
9. Complications of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy
10. Complications of Variceal Sclerotherapy, Ligation and Balloon Tamponade
11. ERCP Complications
12. Complications of Laparoscopic Surgery
13. Liver Biopsy
14. Complications of Colonoscopy
15. Capsule Endoscopy Complications
16. Endoscopic Ultrasound Complications

Section 3: Specific Conditions

17. Foreign Body Impaction in the Esophagus
18. Esophageal Perforation
19. Perforation of the GI tract
20. Intestinal Obstruction
21. Management of Acute
22. Acute Pancreatitis
23. Biliary Emergencies
24. Variceal Hemorrhage
25. Acute Liver Failure
26. Management of Ascites and Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis
27. Alcoholic Hepatitis
28. Acute Appendicitis
29. Ischemic Bowel
30. Inflammatory Bowel Disease
31. Infectious Diarrhea
32. Diverticular Disease
33. Gastrointestinal Complications of HIV Disease

Index

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