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Esophageal Perforation on Endoscopy
Male 68yo hepatopathy & ACO.  UpperGI bleeding & sengstaken tube. What’s your
UpperGI bleeding ... #Perforation #esophagus ... #Endoscopy #EGD ... #clinical #gastroenterology
ED Thoracotomy Instructions

Getting Into the Chest:
1. Bilateral finger thoracotomies
  • 4th or 5th intercostal space
ED Thoracotomy Instructions ... clamp/pressure to bleeding ... • Ex: visible bleeding ... tube to identify esophagus ... emergency #trauma #checklist
Stoma Indications, Output and Complications

Stoma Types:
 • End ileostomy
 • Loop ileostomy
 • End colostomy
 •
Stoma Types: • End ... ileostomy • End ... Infection • Bleeding ... digestion • Bowel ... Complications #diagnosis #gastroenterology
Dysphagia - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Symptom | Diagnosis
• Solid-food dysphagia present for months to years | Mechanical
Extrinsic to esophagus ... Barium swallow is ... dysphagia • Barium swallow ... structural disorder → EGD ... Diagnosis #Management #gastroenterology
Additional Modalities for Workup of GI Bleed (Other than EGD + Colonoscopy)

Pill endoscopy
 • Able to
Bleed (Other than EGD ... of most small-bowel ... bleed may obscure bleeding ... and inflammatory bowel ... GIBleed #management #gastroenterology
Gastroenterology Endoscopy Tools and Accessories - A Visual Catalog for Trainees and Young Gastroenterologists
Biopsy Forceps:
Gastroenterology ... varices (4 ports to allow ... cannulation, and allow ... Endoscopes: • ESOPHAGO-GASTRO-DUODENOSCOPE ... Aguila @enrrikke #Gastroenterology
Endoscopy - Management of Bleeding Esophageal Varices 
What to Band?
 - Always find the varix that
Management of Bleeding ... EGD and the Banding ... scope gently to allow ... Tricks #management #gastroenterology ... fellows #endoscopy #egd
Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: ED Thoracotomy Instructions
1. CALL FOR HELP.
2. GATHER SUPPLIES.
   +/- Sterile gloves,
Cardiac Arrest: ED ... Sterile gloves, towel ... reversible pathology: bleeding ... emergency #trauma #checklist
Clear Cap Tamponade of Bleeding on Endoscopy
Clear Cap Crowd Control : stop active bleeding using tamponade
Cap Tamponade of Bleeding ... : stop active bleeding ... tight space like esophagus ... Endoscopy #clinical #EGD ... #gastroenterology
Achalasia Summary

Epidemiology: 10 cases per 100,000 individuals

Defined by inadequate relaxation of the LES and aperistalsis
Primary or
two-thirds of the esophagus ... sphincter to relax EGD ... adenocarcinoma Barium swallow ... secondary causes leading ... management #treatment #gastroenterology