FES Flashcards
No light at distal end
- Light source plug - Plugged in & on.
- Not in stand by mode.
- Clean scope tip.
- Burnt out Bulb.
- Dirty distal lens.
Irrigation solution
Sterile water
Saline crystallizes in channel
Out of focus
- White balance
- Clean lens
No irrigation
- Bottle contains water
- Bottle connected to umbilical cord
- Connection too tight
- Bottle lid too tight
- Power on
- Occluded/stuck valve
No insufflation
- Umbilical cord seated in light source. Needs to be screwed in
- Power turned on
- Stuck/Occluded valve
Clogged valve/nozzle
- Clean valve
- Flush channel with cleaning solution, followed by clean water
Unable to pass instrument
- Correct size selected
- Instrument tip closed
- Decrease tip deflection
Routine “high level disinfection”
Gluteraldehyde
Disinfection doe not work with foreign materials
Sterile “Overnight” cycle
Ethylene Oxide Gas
Location of suction port
5 - 7 O’Clock
Cart
- Monitor
- Video processor
- Light source
- Water bottle
- Image printer/recorder
Umbilical cable
Air & water valve
Umbilical cable - Partial depress
Air
Umbilical cable - Complete depress
Cleans lens
Withdraws air to force water into camera
Light cord
Coherent stacks of optic fibers
Positioning: ERCP
Prone with head to right
Left lateral decubitus if difficulty intubating duodenum
Supine: Associated with higher difficulty in intubating the papilla
Positioning: Colonoscopy
Left lateral decubitus
Positioning: APR
Supine
Fiber optic endoscope
Fragile
Fibers break = Dark spots on screen
Bronch and choledocoscopes only
Video endoscopes
Contraindication: Stricture (Can test with dummy pill)
Pregnancy
MRI
Dysphagia (Can endoscopically be placed in stomach)
Prep: NPO x 8hrs
Simethicone, Reglan, PEG
Timing of endoscopy in ESRD
Day after HD
Risk during Colonoscopy
Minor: Hypoxia (5.6%), hypotension, bradycardia, arrhythmia
Preprocedural labs
None
Cardiac Hx: EKG
Respiratory Hx: CXR
Coags: Hypocoaguability
General anesthesia: Pregnancy screen
Iso-osmotic (Polyethlene glycol PEG)
Safe in CHF, ESRD, Elecrolyte abnormaities, Liver disease
Hyperosmolar (Magnesium Citrate)
Better tolerated
Induces CCK release
Sodium Phosphate
Adverse effect: Hyperphosphatemia, Hypokalemia
Contraindication: CKD, AKI, CHF, ACS, lleus, Ascites, Pediatrics
Indication for antibiotics
Endocarditis risk (Prosthetic valve, prior endocarditis, surgical shunt, Tetrology of fallot, congenital heart disease, MVP, HOCM, valvular disease)
Esophageal dilation
Variceal sclerotherapy
ERCP (w/ ductal obstruction)
Pancreatic lesions
Percutaneous gastrostomy tubes
Safe INR
<1.5
ASA/NSAIDs
No contraindication for endoscopy
Post Colonoscopy
Major: Perforation, Bleeding, Post scope syndrome, Bronchospasm (0.07%)
Mortality: Colonoscopy
0.007%-0.001%
Mortality: EGD
0.0001% (1:10,000)
Procedural monitoring
Pulse Ox
Verbal stimulation
End tidal CO2
Vitals q 5 min
Telemetry
Risk factors for ERCP desaturation
Age >60
ASA >3
Procedural length
Monitoring: COPD
Use capnography to detect CO2 retention
Prior to each drug administration
Always check BP
Propofol
Preferred
Continuous End tidal and EKG
Midazolam
Shorter duration
Less venous irritation
Water soluble
Anterograde amnesia
Flumazenil
Risk of seizures with chronic benzodiazepine use
Remifentanyl
Better than propofol
Better HD stability
Better patient satisfaction
Shorter recovery time
Same respiratory depresssion
Half life of Narcan
60-90 minutes
Nitric oxide
Not tolerated well
Precedex
HD instability
Required analgesic
Longer recovery
Difficult administration
Contraindications: Small caliber endoscopy
Coagulopathy
Prior naso/oro/hypopharynx surgery
Complications: Small caliber endoscopy
Vagal stimulation
(Hypotension, hypoxia, epistaxis)
Anesthesia: Small caliber endoscopy
Lidocaine + Benzocaine + Oxymetazoline
Side effect of Lidocaine + Benzocaine + Oxymetazoline
Aspiration
Methemoglobinemia
Anaphylaxis
Complication rate: EGD
1.4%
Complication rate: Colonoscopy
0.42%
Most common: Missed polyps
Conscious sedation
Higher rate of mortality and morbidity
Bispectral index (BIS) monitoring
Score 0-100
0 = Coma
82 = Endoscopy
100 = Awake
Low accuracy in detecting deep sedation
Discharge criteria
Alert
Ambulating
Tolerating Clears
Surveillance: FAP
Q 1-2 years
Age: 10
Rule out duodenal neoplasm with EGD
Surveillance: Barretts (Low
Risk)
< 3 cm
Q 2 years (No dysplasia)
Surveillance: Barretts (Medium risk)
> 3 cm
Q1 year
Surveillance: Barretts (High risk)
Low grade dysplasia
Q 6 months
Surveillance: Varices w/ sclerotherapy
Q 6-8 weeks
Surveillance: Gastric or esophageal ulcer
Q6 weeks
Until ulcer healed w/ biopsy/brushing
Surveillance: Pernicious anemia
Single endoscopy
No follow up
Contraindications: EGD
HD unstable
Cannot tolerate sedation
Positioning: EGD
LLD
Head elevated
Turn to right for fundus bleeding
Technique: EGD scope introduction
Insert to posterior pharyngeal wall
Tip up to epiglottis
Deflect down to aretynoids
Marker: 15 cm
Technique: Passing duodenal superior angle
90 Right
Angle up
Dial right
Avoiding aspiration on EGD
Bite block reverses jaw thrust
Monitor
- Gastric distention
- Sedation level
- Head elevation
- Fluid removal from gastric fundus
- Decompression prior to scope withdrawal
Areas of perforation: EGD
Cricopharyngeus
Pharynx
Superior duodenum
Morbidity (Most common): EGD
Respiratory depression (drug induced) - 70%
Airway obstruction
Biopsy: EGD
Only biopsy mucosal lesions
Submucosal lesions = EUS/ FNA
Surveillance: Colonoscopy
Age: 45 - q10 years
First degree relative with colorectal cancer at 40 yrs or 10 yrs before youngest relative
< 60 years onset : q 5 years
> 60 years onset: q 10 years
Surveillance: HNPCC
Age: 20 - 25 years
Q 1-2 years colonoscopy
10 years prior to family member diagnosis
Proctoscope
Cannot assess posterior wall of rectum
Contraindications: Colonoscopy
Absolute: Peritonitis
Relative: Anal fissure, recent MI, PE, SBO
Scope size that reaches cecum
160 cm
Scope size for flex sigmoidoscopy
70 cm
Technique: Rectosigmoid junction
Tip deflection
Counterclockwise torque
Clockwise torque
Technique: Colonic loops
Withdraw/ jiggle scope
Apply external pressure on sigmoid to hold loop in place and prevent formation
Location of torque removal
Descending colon/sigmoid (circular muscle) junction
Techniques: Splenic flexure
Slit or fold
Down + Left
Place patient on back or to the right to open slit
Shorten scope once traversed (<50 cm)
Transverse colon
Triangular
Evacuate air to lessen difficulty of traversing hepatic flexure
Apply abdominal pressure/ place patient on back
Hepatic flexure
Straight up
Blue hue of liver
Technique: Ascending colon
Clockwise torque
Tip down + right
Loop reduction
Suction
Place patient to right/ back
70 cm
Anatomy: Ascending colon
Green mucus
Large diameter
Cecum
Crow’s feet (confluence of tenias and ICV) —> Appendiceal orifice
Technique: Terminal Ileum
ICV at bottom of screen
Tip down to valve
Insufflate to open valve
80/90 cm
Can retroflex into cecum = high risk of perforation
Scope withdrawal time
6 minutes
Adenoma detection rate: Men 30%, WOmen 20%
Poor prep
Can abandon colonoscopy
Stool balls in large diverticulum will be present despite repeat preps
Mucosa stuck in port
Remove cap on instrument
Rigid endoscopy
Most accurate way of localizing rectal lesions and measurement
Localizing lesion for removal
Tattooing with carbon microparticles
Circumferential (4 times) 1mL into submucosa
Distal to lesion
Vagal response to colonoscopy
Cessation of scope movement
IVF
Lipoma
No need for resection
Yellow bulge into lumen with mucosal covering
Colitis?
Biopsy
Angiodysplasia
Most common in right colon
If no bleeding no therapy needed