Background: Sodium hypochlorite is found in bleaching agents used to cleaning dishes and bleach laundry. The ingestion of sodium hypochlorite causes acute corrosive esophagitis and gastritis. In establishing the diagnosis and therapeutic approach of acute corrosive poisonings, the upper endoscopy has great importance. The aim of this study was to determine predictive factors of gastrointestinal...

The Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (KSGE) has been hosting seminars since 1989. The seminars have contributed much to the spread of knowledge about gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy. Indeed, the seminars of the KSGE have become among the most attended educational seminars held in Korea. The 54th seminar was held on March 20th, 2016. The number of participants was over 3,800, reflect...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The Modernising Endoscopy Services (MES) programme introduced a focussed modernization drive and data collection regime to English NHS endoscopy services. We independently evaluated the MES programme by comparing routinely collected, service-related endoscopy data from sites that participated in the MES programme and sites that did not. METHODS A random selectio...

Background. The increasing demand for endoscopic procedures coincides with the paradigm shift in health care delivery that emphasizes efficient use of existing resources. However, there is limited literature on the range of endoscopy unit efficiencies. Methods. A time and motion analysis of patient flow through the Hotel-Dieu Hospital (Kingston, Ontario) endoscopy unit was followed by qualitati...

BACKGROUND Although upper gastrointestinal (UGI) endoscopy is highly sensitive for the detection of esophago-gastroduodenal lesions, pain and discomfort during the procedure cause examinees to experience stress and anxiety. Moreover, there have been only a few studies on relief of pain and discomfort during UGI endoscopy through preparatory interventions. Therefore, the aim of this study was to...

BACKGROUND The precise role of capsule endoscopy in the diagnostic algorithm of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding has yet to be determined. Despite the higher diagnostic yield of capsule endoscopy, the actual impact on clinical outcome remains poorly defined. The aim of this study was to evaluate the follow-up results of patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding to determine which managem...

during a period of 10 months from may to february 1995, 120 children (72 girls, 48 boys) with an age range of 4-16 years (mean age 10.87, s.d.±2.7) with chronic abdominal pain who had an abnormal endoscopy (gastroduodenal mucosal defect) and positive urease test were treated for h. pylori. patients were treated randomly with either metronidazole and amoxicillin (double therapy, group a) or metr...

conclusions the results suggested that conversational hypnosis technique could reduce anxiety as well as the sedation process in invasive procedures such as endoscopy. results the results indicated that the participants in experiment group had a significant reduction of anxiety in the posttest. the adverse side effects such as vomiting, nausea, and hiccups in the experimental group was less tha...

background: sodium hypochlorite is found in bleaching agents used to cleaning dishes and bleach laundry. the ingestion of sodium hypochlorite causes acute corrosive esophagitis and gastritis. in establishing the diagnosis and therapeutic approach of acute corrosive poisonings, the upper endoscopy has great importance. the aim of this study was to determine predictive factors of gastrointestinal...