Therapeutic digestive endoscopy I

Digestive endoscopy in five decades.

The world of gastroenterology changed forever when flexible endoscopes became available in the 1960s. Diagnostic and therapeutic techniques proliferated and entered the mainstream of medicine, not without some controversy. Success resulted in a huge service demand, with the need to train more endoscopists and to organise large endoscopy units and teams of staff. The British health service strug...

Informed consent for digestive endoscopy.

Informed consent is necessary in good clinical practice. It is based on the patient´s ability to understand the information about the proposed procedure, the potential consequences and complications, and alternative options. The information is written in understandable language and is fortified by verbal discussion between physician and patient. The aim is to explain the problem, answer all que...

Peculiarities of Paediatric Digestive Endoscopy

British Society for Digestive Endoscopy

The spring meeting of the British Society for Digestive Endoscopy was held at Harrogate on 13-15 February 1975. It was a new venture and included two days devoted to teaching endoscopy. Over 100 attended on each day. The first day dealt with the basic technique of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, and the second with ERCP and colonoscopy. Generous support from the pharmaceutical industry and in...

Digestive endoscopy in Diagnostic Medicine

Fever of Unknown origin (FUO) poses a diagnostic dilemma for most physicians especially when a thorough diagnostic workup is inconclusive. It was defined by Beeson and Petersdorf in1961 as a fever that is greater than 38.3 degrees Celsius (°C), persisting for a period longer than three weeks with a failure to reach a diagnosis despite one week of inpatient investigations [1]. The most common et...