Introduction of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit (Headquarter)

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit is a speciality of Liaocheng Second People's Hospital, which has invested heavily and focused on the development of speciality, with a building area of more than 1,000 square metres, reasonable layout of each functional area, and a warm and comfortable environment. The existing medical and nursing staff of 30 people, chief physician 5 people, deputy chief physician 4 people, 10 nurses, currently has an advanced digestive tract electronic endoscopy host 8 sets and advanced high-definition electronic gastroscopy, electronic enteroscopy, magnification of electronic gastroscopy, magnification of electronic colonoscopy, electronic duodenoscopy, ultrasound endoscopy of more than 30, capsule endoscopy, electrocoagulation electrocautery equipment and argon plasma coagulation electrocautery equipment (Argon Knife) a total of 3 sets, and has advanced fully automated endoscopy. It also has advanced automatic endoscopic cleaning and sterilisation equipment and other related supporting equipment. It also cooperates with the Department of Anaesthesiology to carry out painless gastroenteroscopy and various treatments and surgeries, which reduces the pain of patients and their fear of endoscopy, and improves the comfort of patients and the compliance of endoscopy. The diagnostic and therapeutic technology of digestive endoscopy room is at the advanced level in the province, and the endoscopic minimally invasive treatment techniques carried out at present are:

(1) Gastrointestinal haemostatic treatment: Skilled in carrying out a variety of gastrointestinal endoscopic haemostatic treatment for gastrointestinal bleeding or oesophagogastric fundal varices, through sclerosant injection, haemostatic clip clamping, argon ion coagulation (APC), coil ligation and other means to achieve good haemostatic treatment results.

2. Resection of polyps and submucosal tumours: endoscopic resection of gastrointestinal polyps, submucosal mesenchymal tumours and early carcinoid tumours is routinely carried out in Endoscopy Unit, including high-frequency electric coil resection, electrothermal forceps ligation, trans-oesophageal submucosal tunnel tumour excavation (STER), submucosal tumour excision (ESE) and so on.

3. Minimally invasive treatment of early gastrointestinal cancer: with the development of ultrasonic endoscopy, many early gastrointestinal cancers can be diagnosed. The Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit can skillfully carry out endoscopic minimally invasive treatment for early gastrointestinal tract cancers, including endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), etc., which can completely remove early cancerous foci, is safe and effective, and there is no surgical scar on the surface of the body, which avoids the disadvantages of the traditional surgery such as huge trauma and the impact on the aesthetics.

4. Removal of foreign bodies and gastroliths in stomach: infants and young children are easy to swallow all kinds of foreign bodies, such as coins, which are difficult to be discharged after entering the stomach, and gastroliths are easy to be formed by long-term chronic gastric retention, which can be removed under endoscopy with special instruments in endoscopy room, which is safe and easy to be removed.

5. Expansion or stenting of digestive tract stenosis: For benign narrowing or malignant narrowing of the oesophagus and gastrointestinal tract, the dilation of stenosis and stenting carried out by the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit have remarkable effects, which can restore the patency of the digestive tract of the patients in the short term or for a long period of time, and improve the quality of life of the patients.

6. Treatment of pancreatic dystrophy: endoscopic pancreatic sphincterotomy (POEM) is carried out, which has the advantages of minimally invasive endoscopy, no incision on the surface of the body, beautiful, fast recovery, and comparable to the effect of surgery.

7. Placement of gastrointestinal nutritional tubes: Skilled in the placement of nutritional tubes through the nasal jejunum, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), etc., which can establish a pathway of enteral nutritional support for patients in need of enteral nutritional support under non-invasive or minimally invasive conditions.

7. Duodenoscopic treatment: ERCP can not only diagnose biliary and pancreatic diseases, but also carry out a variety of treatments under the microscope. The Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit is good at endoscopic interventional treatment of various biliary and pancreatic diseases, and can skillfully carry out endoscopic choledochotomy, nasobiliary drainage, choledochal stenting and drainage, pancreatic stenting and drainage, etc., to treat all kinds of biliary and pancreatic obstructive diseases.

8. Capsule endoscopy: With OMOM capsule endoscopy of Jinshan Company, it can enable patients to complete safe, non-invasive and comfortable examination of the upper gastrointestinal tract and small intestine, and discover unexplained gastrointestinal bleeding, small intestinal polyps, small intestinal benign and malignant tumours, vascular malformations, ulcers, and other lesions.

9. Ultrasound endoscopy: it can make use of the high-frequency ultrasound probe at the apex of the endoscope to diagnose submucosal elevated lesions in the gastrointestinal tract and can further carry out ultrasound endoscopic puncture technology to further confirm the nature of the lesion.

10. 13C and 14C Breath Test: Rapid, non-invasive and accurate detection of Helicobacter pylori.

The newest location of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit (Headquarter): Liaocheng Second People's Hospital (No.306, Health Street, Linqing City, Shandong Province), 4F East, Outpatient Building.