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Thank you very much to all those who replied to my recent request :

I’ve been asked by a specialist nurse for a resource (video/dvd etc) about endoscopy (from a patient’s point of view). This is to help the training of nurses. Is anyone aware of anything suitable? I’d be most grateful.

For anyone else interested, here are the responses I got:

I asked one of Nurse Endoscopists about this, and she doesn’t know of anything like this (indeed I was quite shocked at the extent of her “we’ll tell them everything they need to know” attitude… as a result I told her about www.dipex.org , and that seems to have some relevant material (though our Trust’s IT constraints don’t let us watch any clips online)

MedlinePlus has a page of tutorials on various endoscopic procedures - I haven't viewed them, but it might be worth investigating: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/diagnosticimaging.html#cat64

The Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy at St Marks Hospital, produces a dvd for nurse training in all aspects of endoscopy.

www.wolfsonendoscopy.org.uk

It might be worth contacting them to see if they have produced anything from a patient perspective, or if not, they might be able to suggest where you might try

There might be something suitable on http://www.gastrosource.com/

It’s mostly pictures of the insides of guts, but I think I recall seeing something about techniques there too.

Possibly something on dipex

http://www.dipex.org.uk/search/?DOSEARCH=YES&SEARCH='endoscopy'

You can see that two suggested the same thing. I also looked at Intute, but did not find much. But worth a look anyway. http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?term1=endoscopy&limit=0&subject=healthandlifesciences

Best wishes – and have a good weekend.

Margaret Valentine

Trust Librarian

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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