Introduction to endoscopy
- Department name: Endoscopy
- Specialty: Digestion
- Number of beds: two recovery
- Other important rooms and side spaces:
Endoscopy salon - Colonoscopy salon - Doctor's room - Patients' locker room - Ward entrance room and secretary's place
- Technical manager: Dr. Hossein Nobakht (gastroenterologist)
- Head Nurse: Masoumeh Nazari (Nursing Expert)
- Name and specialty of physicians: Dr. Hossein Nobakht (subspecialty in gastroenterology) - Dr. Reza Dabiri (subspecialty in gastroenterology) - Dr. Alireza Peymanfar (subspecialty in gastroenterology) - Dr. Shahrokh Mousavi (internal medicine specialist)
- Total number of endoscopies performed in the previous year: 2500 people
- Location of the ward in the hospital: floor minus one (basement)
- Important facilities and equipment of the department:
Oxygen and central suction - Pulse oximeter - Endoscope - Colonoscope - ERCP - Bronchoscope - Saline endoscope - Saline forceps - C-arm device - Boogie device - Fluoroscope - Monitor and computer device
- The usual process of admission and treatment of patients in the ward:
Refer the patient or his / her companion to the admission unit to make an appointment with the request of the treating physician - Enter the patient details and information required in the admission program - Perform the desired service in the endoscopy room - Enter the services performed in addition to importing equipment Used for patients in HIS - Refer to the fund unit to deposit the amount of hair rejected - Delivery of print report of the report to the patient - If you have a pathology sample, guide the patient to deliver the sample to the pathology center
Important therapeutic and diagnostic activities:
Gastroscopy , colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, ERCP (pegging, sclerotherapy, polypectomy, stenting, esophageal dilatation with achalasia balloon and boogie and ...
Major cases of need for endoscopy:
Functional indigestion - Hiatal hernia - Erosive esophagitis - Peptic ulcer (duodenal ulcer - Gastric ulcer) - Esophageal and gastric malignancies - Esophageal motility disorders (such as achalasia) - Varicose veins (esophageal varices and gastric varicose veins)
Major cases of need for colonoscopy:
Perianal lesion (such as hemorrhoids - Fischer - fistula) - Polyps - Inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis - Crohn's) - Malignancies
Major requirements for performing ERCP:
- CBD Stone
- Malignancies (cholangiocarcinoma - pancreatic cancer - ampulla water cancer)
The endoscopy unit of this center is active in the morning shift for all hospitalized and outpatient patients and in the evening and night shifts and holidays only for hospitalized and emergency patients. To get an appointment after calling the hospital hotline, call the internal number 2203.
