ABSTRACT

Practical Gastroenterology is aimed at the specialist trainee and new consultant in practice. Focusing primarily on day-to-day management issues, it is structured to reflect the way the problems present and are managed in the hospital, such as whether patients are seen as inpatients or outpatients. Its approach is clinically-orientated. An introduc

part |2 pages

Part I: Gastroenterology Trainee’s Survival Guide A: Refresher Course in Basic Gastroenterology

chapter C|2 pages

Selected Procedures

part |2 pages

Part II: Managing Gastroenterology Inpatients

chapter 13|6 pages

Acute Abdominal Pain

chapter 14|20 pages

Oesophageal Problems

chapter 15|8 pages

Intestinal Obstruction

chapter 17|4 pages

Biliary Colic and Cholangitis

chapter 18|16 pages

Gastrointestinal Malignancy Oncology

chapter 21|14 pages

Nutritional Support

chapter 22|10 pages

1. Liver Failure: Acute Liver Failure

chapter 22|8 pages

2. Liver Failure: Chronic Liver Disease

chapter 23|8 pages

Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis

part

Part III: A Problem-Based Approach to Gastroenterology Outpatients

chapter 24|6 pages

Nausea and Vomiting

chapter 25|10 pages

Anaemia

chapter 27|8 pages

The Irritable Bowel Syndrome

chapter 28|6 pages

Diarrhoea

chapter 29|10 pages

Problems with Swallowing

chapter 30|4 pages

Postgastrectomy Disorders

chapter 32|10 pages

Constipation

chapter 33|6 pages

Faecal Incontinence

chapter 35|16 pages

Infectious Diarrhoea

chapter 39|10 pages

Gallstones

chapter 43|8 pages

Perianal Problems

Common minor anal disorders

part |2 pages

Part IV: Procedures and Investigations in Gastroenterology

chapter 48|28 pages

Ultrasound for Gastroenterologists

chapter 50|4 pages

Investigation of Gastrointestinal Motility

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