DOES ROUTINE EGD PRIOR TO EUS REVEAL FINDINGS OF SIGNIFICANCE
Yuan Y Stevenson, MD, Nan Walsh, CRNP, Robert D Fanelli, MD, MHA, FACS, FASGE. Guthrie Robert Packer HospitalIntroduction: Side-viewing endoscopes used for endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) provide almost no view of the esophagus during insertion. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) routinely is performed immediately prior to EUS to rule out obstructive lesions, stenoses, or to identify the location of… Continue Reading
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ENDOSCOPIC MANAGEMENT OF COMPLETE BOWEL OBSTRUCTION SECONDARY TO INGESTION OF WATER ABSORBING BEADS
Seyed A Arshad, MD, Andrew Christensen, MD, Edward Auyang, MD, MS, FACS, Jason Mckee, MD, FACS. University of New MexicoPediatric foreign body ingestion is a common issue with a reported 100,000 ingestions per year [1]. Most of these are accidental with a high majority being coins. A reported 50-90% of foreign bodies pass spontaneously, with… Continue Reading
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ERAS Following Per-Oral Pyloromyotomy (POP): A Comparison of Safety and Cost with Same-Day Discharge vs. Inpatient Recovery
Joshua P Landreneau, MD, MSc1, Andrew T Strong, MD1, Jeffrey L Ponsky, MD1, Michael Cline, MD1, Matthew Kroh, MD2, John Rodriguez, MD1, Kevin El-Hayek, MD1. 1Cleveland Clinic, 2Cleveland Clinic Abu DhabiIntroduction: While per-oral pyloromyotomy (POP) has shown promise as a novel endoscopic procedure to treat medically refractory gastroparesis, standardized care pathways are not well defined.… Continue Reading
Modification of Child Pugh Score Improves Prognostication in Variceal Bleeding
Richard T Spence1, Jake Krige2, Marius Hoogerboord1, James Ellsmere1. 1Dalhousie University, 2University of Cape TownBackground: There is currently no consensus which specific risk factors or scores predict early rebleeding and early mortality after a major variceal bleed. The objective of this study was to investigate the relative predictive performances of the Child-Pugh and MELD scores for… Continue Reading