Book chapter
Tools and Techniques for Gastrointestinal Hemostasis
Principles of Flexible Endoscopy for Surgeons, pp.79-90
Springer New York
03/27/2013
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6330-6_8
Abstract
Acute gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding can be amongst the most challenging GI conditions for care givers and is optimally managed in a multidisciplinary fashion. Team members can be highly variable and may include an emergency room physician, interventional radiologist or vascular surgeon, gastroenterologist, intensivist, and surgeon or surgical endoscopist. It is vital to have clear, concise, and current communication among team members to optimize outcome for the patient. Each member has a critical role from initiating resuscitation promptly in the emergency room, to endoscopic diagnostic and therapeutic management, to endovascular or interventional radiologic strategies if endoscopic therapies fail, and finally to post-procedure support and monitoring of the patient. This chapter provides an in-depth look at the tools used to gain endoscopic hemostasis in the GI tract. Basic elements of the proper evaluation and preparation of a patient for endoscopic therapy of GI bleeding are also covered.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Tools and Techniques for Gastrointestinal Hemostasis
- Creators
- Sajida Ahad - Southern Illinois University School of MedicineJohn D. Mellinger - Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Principles of Flexible Endoscopy for Surgeons, pp.79-90
- Publisher
- Springer New York; New York, NY
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4614-6330-6_8
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/27/2013
- Academic Unit
- Surgery
- Record Identifier
- 9984322954902771
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