Acknowledgements..
Part I: Approach to Specific Presentations.
1. Acute dysphagia.
2. Vomiting.
3. Acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage.
4. Acute abdominal pain.
5. Jaundice.
6. Acute lower gastrointestinal haemorrhage (with contributions from john Moorehead, Paul Neilly).
7. Diarrhoea..
Part II: Complications of Gastrointestinal Procedures.
8. Introduction to section.
9. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.
10. PEG.
11. Variceal sclerotherapy, ligation and balloon tamponade.
12. ERCP.
13. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
14. Liver biopsy.
15. Colonoscopy..
Part III: Specific Conditions.
16. Foreign body impaction in the oesophagus.
17. Caustic ingestion to the oesophagus.
18. Oesophageal perforation.
19. Complications of oesophageal cancer.
20. Peptic ulcer perforation.
21. Gastric outlet obstruction.
22. Nonvariceal haemorrhage.
23. Acute pancreatitis.
24. Acute cholecystitis.
25. Biliary colic.
26. Cholangitis.
27. Variceal haemorrhage.
28. Acute liver failure.
29. Paracetamol toxicity.
30. Ascites.
31. Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.
32. Alcoholic hepatitis.
33. Acute appendicitis.
34. Intestinal obstruction (with contributions from John Moorehead, Paul Neilly).
35. Ischaemic bowel (with contributions from John Moorehead, Paull Neilly).
36. Inflammatory bowel disease (with contributions from John Moorehead, Paul Neilly).
37. Infectious diarrhoea (with contributions from John Moorehead, Paul Neilly).
38. Diverticular disease (with contributions from John Moorehead, Paul Neilly).
39. Acute lower gastrointestinal haemorrhage: specific conditions (with contributions from John Moorehead, Paul Neilly).
Index.
