Practical Pediatric Gastrointestinal Endoscopy is the only text available that provides detailed instructions of all practical aspects of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures in children.
Practical Pediatric Gastrointestinal Endoscopy gives detailed descriptions of the investigation, diagnosis and therapeutic pediatric GI endoscopy treatments with special attention to the differences between instruments used for adults and for pediatric patients.
Contents
Settings and Staff
- The endoscopy unit
- Pediatric endoscopy nurse
- Disinfections of the endoscopes and accessories
- Documentation
Equipment
- Insertion tube
- Video image capture
- "Reading"’ the image created on the CCD
- Types of CCDs
- History of endoscope CCD development
- Shape of displayed image
- Reproduction of color
- Reproduction of motion
- Transillumination
- Laser therapy with video endoscopes
- Image resolution
- Color reproduction accuracy
- Troubleshooting
- Endoscope reprocessing
Patient Preparation
- Pediatric-monitored sedation and anesthesia for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in endoscopy
- During sedation
- Postsedation care
- Specific sedation techniques
Diagnostic Upper Endoscopy Technique
- Preparation for esophageal intubation
- Assembling the equipment and preprocedure checkup
- Endoscope handling
- Technique of esophageal intubation
- Indications for upper endoscopy
- Push enteroscopy/jejunoscopy
Therapeutic Upper GI Endoscopy
- Benign esophageal stricture
- Pneumatic dilation in achalasia
- Foreign bodies
- Endoscopic hemostasis
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
- Nasojejunal tube placement
Pediatric Colonoscopy
- Indications for colonoscopy
- Preparation of the patient for colonoscopy
- Equipment
- Magnetic imaging system
- Informed consent and preprocedure preparation
- Sedation for colonoscopy
- Embryology of the colon
- Endoscopic anatomy
- Torque-steering technique
- Exploration of the sigmoid colon and sigmoid–descending junction
- Splenic flexure and transverse colon
- Hepatic flexure, ascending colon, and cecum
- Terminal ileum
- Common pathology
Polypectomy
- Basic principles of electrosurgery
- Snare loops
- Polypectomy routine
- Safety routine
- Safety conditions and techniques
Chromoendoscopy
- Indications
- Application technique
- Recognition of the lesions
Wireless Capsule Endoscopy
- History
- The GIVEN M2A system
- Localization
- Suspected blood indicator
- Indication for use
- Diagnostic yield
- Contraindications to capsule endoscopy
- Pacemaker safety
- Bowel preparation
- Promotility agents
- Endoscopic assistance
- Outcome of capsule endoscopy
- Pediatric patients
Index
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