Other investigations
Endoscopy, colonoscopy, ERCP, exercise testing, echocardiography, coronary angiography, bronchoscopy and spirometry.
10 pages
Investigation
- BronchoscopyA thin camera is passed through the nose or mouth into the windpipe and lungs to look inside…
- Capsule endoscopyThe patient swallows a pill-sized camera that takes pictures of the small bowel as it passes…
- Colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopyA flexible camera is passed through the back passage to look at the large bowel, take samples…
- Coronary angiography and angioplastyA thin tube is passed from the wrist or groin to the heart; dye on X-ray shows narrowed…
- Echocardiography: transthoracic and transoesophagealUltrasound shows the heart beating: its walls, valves and pumping strength, from the chest or…
- ERCPA camera through the mouth reaches the bile duct opening in the duodenum, and X-rays with dye…
- Exercise and pharmacological stress testingThe heart is made to work harder, by walking on a treadmill or with a drug, while an ECG or a…
- Holter and ambulatory blood-pressure monitoringA small recorder worn during daily life captures the heart rhythm or the blood pressure for a…
- Upper GI endoscopyA thin flexible camera is passed through the mouth to look at the gullet, stomach and first part…
Interpretation
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Educational content; it does not replace supervised hands-on training, your institution's protocols or a prescriber's order. A procedure is learnt with a teacher and done only once you are trained to do it.
Representative model, for educational purposes only.