ENDOSCOPY UNIT GUIDELINES

Our endoscopy unit utilises a number of local guidelines and endorses a variety of external guidelines (denoted by *) which may be of interest to General Practitioners and other health professionals.

This list will be updated with new and revised guidelines as they become available.

• Emergency Guidelines:
  • Acute upper GI bleed guideline
  • National (SIGN) guidelines for the management of acute upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding*
• General Guidelines:
  • Antibiotic prophylaxis in gastrointestinal endoscopy*  and local guidelines
  • Anticoagulation & antiplatelet use guidelines
  • Assessment of fitness for endoscopy
  • Consent procedures in gastroenterology
  • Diabetes - management of diabetes and endoscopic procedures 
  • Dyspepsia pathway
  • Gastroenterology directorate consent policy
  • Investigation of the jaundiced patient 
  • Iron deficiency anaemia - Investigation guidelines 
  • Pacemeker / Implantable defibrillator guideline 
  • Sedation policy
  • Varient CJD Guidelines
• Upper GI Guidelines
  • Guidelines for the management of Barrett’s oesophagus and Algorithm
  • Indications for ERCP
  • PEG insertion – Ethical guidelines
• Lower GI Guidelines
  • Colonic Investigation Guidance and Algorithm
  • Bowel Preparation for colonoscopy
  • Colonoscopy Preparation – Diabetic patients
  • Colonoscopy Preparation – Dialysis patients
  • Colonoscopic surveillance protocol
  • Colitis Surveillance Algorithm
  • Guidelines for adenoma (polyp) surveillence

For further information and enquiries please contact the Endoscopy Unit on 0151-706-2720.

Information here is based upon or links directly to a variety of organisations and we acknowledge their authorship:

• Academy of Royal Colleges and Royal College of Anaesthesia (RCOA)
• American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD)
• American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)
• British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL)
• British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)
• Joint Advisory Group on Training in Endoscopy (JAG)
• NHS Department of Health (DoH)
• Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)

• Referrals and Consultations
• General Practitioners
• Patients
• Internal Ward Referrals
• External Tertiary Referrals
• Endoscopy Unit Guidelines