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General Surgery

Endoscopy and Endoscopic Intervention

Built from Maingot's Abdominal Operations

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13 sections · 185 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • Scope of flexible endoscopy today
    • Fields covered by interventional endoscopy

    2 slides

  2. 02

    The flexible endoscope

    How the picture is made, and how the instrument is built

    • Image transmission in a fiberoptic endoscope
    • Videoendoscopes and the charge coupled device
    • Aim of the newer imaging methods and chromoendoscopy
    • Lugol's solution and magnification endoscopy
    • Yield of magnification and confocal microendoscopy
    • Narrow band imaging
    • White light and narrow band views of Barrett's esophagus
    • Autofluorescence and light scattering spectroscopy
    • Optical coherence tomography
    • Cross-section of the esophageal wall on optical coherence tomography
    • Wall layers resolved by cross-sectional imaging
    • Image documentation during endoscopy
    • Controls on the endoscope head piece
    • Air, water, suction and the biopsy channel
    • Rotation, torque and loop formation
    • Variable stiffness control on a colonoscope
    • Shape-locking device and self-propelled colonoscopes
    • Endoscopic training for surgical residents

    18 slides

  3. 03

    Patient assessment, sedation and monitoring

    Making the procedure safe before the scope goes in

    • Preprocedural patient assessment
    • Patients needing extra vigilance, and how they are monitored
    • Limits of pulse oximetry and the role of capnography
    • Sedation agents, reversal and titration
    • Cardiopulmonary complications of endoscopic sedation

    5 slides

  4. 04

    Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy

    Indications, preparation, technique and tissue sampling

    • Diagnostic and therapeutic roles of upper endoscopy
    • Alarm symptoms that call for upper endoscopy
    • The nine alarm symptoms in full
    • Contraindications to upper endoscopy
    • Coagulopathy and suspected perforation
    • Preparation before upper endoscopy
    • Antibiotic prophylaxis and choice of scope
    • Intubation of the cervical esophagus
    • Route of the endoscope during upper endoscopy
    • Landmarks recorded in the esophagus
    • Surveying the stomach
    • Entering the duodenum and the short position
    • Retroflexion in the stomach
    • Retroflex view of a large paraesophageal hernia
    • Retroflex view of an intact fundoplication
    • Forceps biopsy and surveillance protocols
    • Brush cytology

    17 slides

  5. 05

    Endoscopic control of gastrointestinal bleeding

    Thermal and non-thermal ways to shut a bleeding point

    • Role of endoscopy in upper gastrointestinal bleeding
    • Categories of endoscopic haemostatic therapy
    • Choosing a haemostatic technique
    • Success and risk of thermal haemostasis
    • Contact thermal techniques
    • Bipolar endoscopic cautery device
    • Argon plasma coagulation
    • Gastric antral vascular ectasia treated by argon plasma coagulation
    • Injection sclerotherapy
    • Agents used for injection therapy
    • Endoscopic treatment of esophageal varices
    • Endoscopic band and loop ligation
    • Endoscopic clips placed for haemostasis

    13 slides

  6. 06

    Endoscopic mucosal resection and ablation

    Removing and destroying early lesions without an operation

    • Scope of endoscopic mucosal resection
    • Steps of saline lift mucosal resection
    • Saline lift mucosal resection
    • Sessile colon polyp before mucosal resection
    • Sessile colon polyp after submucosal injection
    • Polypectomy site after saline lift resection
    • Cap-assisted and band-assisted resection
    • Complications of endoscopic mucosal resection
    • Endoscopic submucosal dissection
    • Endoscopic mucosal ablation
    • The HALO 90 radiofrequency ablation device

    11 slides

  7. 07

    Endoscopic enteral access

    Feeding and decompression tubes placed with a scope

    • Indications for endoscopic enteral access
    • Contraindications to endoscopic enteral access
    • Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
    • Preparation and positioning for gastrostomy
    • Choosing the puncture site and confirming a safe tract
    • Pull and push gastrostomy techniques
    • Internal bumper checked at second endoscopy
    • Introducer and assisted gastrostomy techniques
    • Gastrostomy with jejunal extension
    • Aspiration and the limits of tube feeding
    • Direct percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy

    11 slides

  8. 08

    Foreign bodies, dilation and enteral stents

    Clearing, stretching and propping open the gut lumen

    • Who swallows foreign bodies
    • Urgency and airway protection
    • Removing coins and food boluses
    • Sharp objects, batteries and drug packets
    • Assessment after foreign body removal
    • Eosinophilic esophagitis found after food bolus impaction
    • Migrated sutures at a previous gastrojejunostomy
    • Endoscopic dilation of strictures
    • Dilator types and how far to go in one session
    • Balloon dilation and waist ablation
    • Enteral stents and their delivery systems
    • Reach of the different stent delivery systems
    • Covered and uncovered enteral stents
    • Uncovered enteral stents

    14 slides

  9. 09

    Endoluminal treatment of gastroesophageal reflux

    A generation of devices, and what became of them

    • Overview of endoluminal antireflux devices
    • EndoCinch and Stretta
    • The NDO Plicator
    • Enteryx polymer implantation and its withdrawal
    • Gatekeeper and EsophyX

    5 slides

  10. 10

    Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography

    Reaching the bile and pancreatic ducts through the duodenum

    • Origins of ERCP
    • Why ERCP is reserved for treatment
    • Indications for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
    • Biliary indications for ERCP
    • Pancreatic and ductal injury indications for ERCP
    • Preparation and passage of the side-viewing duodenoscope
    • Reaching the short-scope position and the papilla
    • Cannulating the bile and pancreatic ducts
    • Two types of sphincterotomy
    • Impacted common bile duct stone at the ampulla
    • Sphincterotomy with a pull-wire sphincterotome
    • Major papilla after sphincterotomy
    • Clearing common bile duct stones
    • Common bile duct stone on cholangiogram
    • Extracted bile duct stone lying in the duodenum
    • Preoperative ERCP and sphincter of Oddi dysfunction
    • Manometry, cholangitis and gallstone pancreatitis
    • Indications for biliary and pancreatic endoprostheses
    • Contrast leaking from an accessory bile duct
    • Bile leak resolved after six weeks of stenting
    • Transpapillary biliary stent for a duct leak
    • Placing and sizing a biliary endoprosthesis
    • Choosing between plastic and metal biliary stents
    • Distal bile duct stricture from a pancreatic head cancer
    • Pancreatic duct stenting
    • Guide wire in the pancreatic duct before stenting
    • Temporary plastic pancreatic stent in place
    • Pancreatic duct stones and pseudocyst drainage
    • Transvisceral drainage and endoscopic necrosectomy
    • Post-ERCP pancreatitis
    • Infection and bleeding after ERCP
    • Perforation during and after ERCP
    • Managing perforation from ERCP manipulation

    33 slides

  11. 11

    Small bowel enteroscopy

    Reaching the part of the gut that was out of reach

    • Capsule endoscopy
    • Older approaches to the small bowel
    • Balloon-assisted deep enteroscopy
    • Practicalities of balloon enteroscopy

    4 slides

  12. 12

    Lower gastrointestinal endoscopy

    Colonoscopy from insertion to polypectomy and stenting

    • Origins and screening role of colonoscopy
    • Diagnostic and therapeutic indications for colonoscopy
    • Diagnostic indications for colonoscopy
    • Therapeutic indications for colonoscopy
    • Contraindications to colonoscopy
    • Bowel preparation and drug precautions
    • Principles of colonoscope handling
    • Stapled anastomosis at the rectosigmoid level
    • Starting the colonoscopy
    • Advancing through the rectum and sigmoid colon
    • Multiple diverticula in the sigmoid colon
    • Loop reduction, splenic flexure and transverse colon
    • Hepatic flexure, ascending colon and terminal ileum
    • Cecal landmarks confirming a complete examination
    • Lipomatous appearance of the ileocecal valve
    • Withdrawal and inspection
    • Retroflexed view of the rectal vault and dentate line
    • Bleeding and perforation after colonoscopy
    • Sites of perforation and postpolypectomy syndrome
    • Polypectomy of small and pedunculated polyps
    • Small pedunculated polyp suitable for snare polypectomy
    • Sessile polyps and mucosal resection in the colon
    • Polyp retrieval, tattooing and surveillance intervals
    • Lower gastrointestinal bleeding: sources and preparation
    • Timing, diverticular bleeding and angiodysplasia
    • Colonoscopic decompression in pseudo-obstruction
    • Technique and limits of colonoscopic decompression
    • Colonic stenting
    • Placing a stent across an obstructing colon lesion
    • Obstructing sigmoid colon cancer before stenting
    • Guide wire passed across an obstructing lesion
    • Relief of obstruction after colonic stent deployment

    32 slides

  13. 13

    Endoscopic ultrasound and future developments

    Seeing through the wall, and operating without a scar

    • Role of endoscopic ultrasound
    • Endoscopic ultrasound in pancreatic, hepatobiliary and mediastinal disease
    • Endoscopic ultrasound in luminal and retroperitoneal disease
    • What endoscopic ultrasound is used for
    • Technique of endoscopic ultrasound
    • Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery
    • Limitations and the tools that answer them
    • Takeaways: the instrument and the image
    • Takeaways: intervention and its risks
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    • Maingot's Abdominal Operations, 12th Edition

    20 slides