Clinical Guide to Gastroenterology

About this book

A ward guide for junior doctors and medical students in the Wiley Clinical Guides series. It opens with abdominal examination technique, then works through presenting symptoms such as dysphagia, dyspepsia, vomiting, abdominal pain, GI bleeding, change in bowel habit, anaemia and jaundice, followed by conditions organ by organ from oesophagus to pancreas. Later chapters explain investigations and procedures including liver biochemistry, ultrasound, CT, OGD, ERCP, MRCP, colonoscopy, feeding and paracentesis, and the book closes with pharmacology chapters on dyspepsia, IBD, liver disease and paracetamol overdose.