MercyAscot Gastroenterology Update

Gastroenterology Update: An update on gastroenterology, hepatology, and endoscopy, and an interactive education session.
Presentations
Bowel cancer screening and polyps
- Indications for screening
- What polyps are clinically significant?
- Methods for polypectomy
- FODMAPs
- Difficult IBS
Liver case studies
- Interpretation of liver enzyme tests
- Fatty liver
- Hepatitis B and C
- Elevated ferritin – is it haemochromatosis
- Iron deficiency anaemia / Occult GI bleeding
- What to do when proton pump inhibitors fail?
- NERD
- Role of oesophageal pH-impedance testing
- When to refer for surgery?