Patient Preparation
Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) is noninvasive, is well tolerated by patients, [65] requires no anesthesia or sedation, and allows patients to remain ambulatory during evaluation. Minimal preparation is required [25] ; abdominal plain films should be obtained beforehand if stricture or obstruction is suspected. [19, 46]
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Equipment for capsule endoscopy.
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Hemorrhagic telangiectasia.
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Crohn disease, linear ulceration.
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Video of capsule endoscopy from patient with gastrointestinal bleeding.
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Ruben Peralta, MD, FACS, FCCM, FCCP Deputy Trauma Medical Director, Professor and Director of Trauma, Emergency and Critical Care Fellowship Program, Senior Consultant in Surgery, Trauma, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Associate Director of Trauma Intensive Care Unit, Hamad General Hospital and Hamad Medical Corporation, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
Ruben Peralta, MD, FACS, FCCM, FCCP is a member of the following medical societies: American Association of Blood Banks, American College of Healthcare Executives, American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association, Association for Academic Surgery, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Massachusetts Medical Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
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Fernando A Contreras Peña, MD Private Practice, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Fernando A Contreras Peña, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Gastroenterology, American College of Physicians, American Gastroenterological Association
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Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape Drug Reference
Disclosure: Received salary from Medscape for employment. for: Medscape.
John Geibel, MD, MSc, DSc, AGAF Vice Chair and Professor, Department of Surgery, Section of Gastrointestinal Medicine, Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine; Director of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Yale-New Haven Hospital; American Gastroenterological Association Fellow; Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine
John Geibel, MD, MSc, DSc, AGAF is a member of the following medical societies: American Gastroenterological Association, American Physiological Society, American Society of Nephrology, Association for Academic Surgery, International Society of Nephrology, New York Academy of Sciences, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.
Brian J Daley, MD, MBA, FACS, FCCP, CNSC Professor and Program Director, Department of Surgery, Chief, Division of Trauma and Critical Care, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
Brian J Daley, MD, MBA, FACS, FCCP, CNSC is a member of the following medical societies: American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Southern Surgical Association, American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association, Association for Academic Surgery, Association for Surgical Education, Shock Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Southeastern Surgical Congress, Tennessee Medical Association
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.
Sarah C Langenfeld, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Attending Psychiatrist, Community HealthLink
Sarah C Langenfeld, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, and Massachusetts Medical Society
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