Waiting time as long as six months as minimum in a public hospital

Ms. Zhang, aged 42, undergoes a physical examination on a yearly basis. As she developed positive for helicobacter pylori, and in addition, she had a stomach upset from time to time, she was recommended to have gastrointestinal endoscopy to make sure the absence of gastrointestinal organic disease before receiving a targeted therapy.

However, after consulting several public hospitals, she was informed that the gastrointestinal endoscopy could not be performed simultaneously, but gastroscope or alternatively enteroscopy was available, the reservation procedure was fairly tedious, and that in particular, the reservation of painless gastrointestinal endoscopy would not be available before waiting for six months as minimum.

Why is gastrointestinal endoscopy in so great demand?

Because it serves as the gold standard in the screening and diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases!

With a high incidence of cancer of the stomach, China annually sees new reported 680,000 gastric cancer patients, and 500,000 deaths of gastric cancer ranking the first in the world and with the death occurrence from gastric cancer almost every minute. According to the latest data of health in China, gastric cancer and colorectal cancer are among the Top Three Cancers in morbidity.

Since the formation of gastrointestinal neoplasms must undergo a progressive and evolutive process, it is the key to disease cure to detect promptly the early lesion. Early gastroenteric tumors have a fairly high cure rate, and some of them, while receiving the gastrointestinal endoscope, can even have the lesion resected. But if they have reached an advanced stage, the mortality rate will be very high.

Over the recent years, with the increasing health awareness among people, for the purpose of screening gastrointestinal diseases, people have been subject to the gastrointestinal endoscopy, which was only performed upon the detection of the gastrointestinal symptoms in the past, and thus has become a popular item.

Why the reservation of painless gastrointestinal endoscopy is so difficult?

Due to the fear of discomfort arising from the traditional gastroscopy and enteroscopy among people, the painless gastrointestinal endoscopy under general anesthesia has obtained increasing popularity.

Furthermore, with the painless gastrointestinal endoscopy, there will not be physical agitation, and the gastrointestinal peristalsis will slow down facilitating the detection of lesions and causing less occurrence of gastrointestinal accidental perforation and bleeding. Patients with hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular disease are thus facing less emergency risk.

The lack of anesthetists and too many patients waiting for the gastrointestinal endoscopy are one of the important reasons why the reservation of painless gastrointestinal endoscopy is so difficult in public hospitals.

In Wuxi Kaiyi Hospital, you can choose to receive gastroscope and enteroscopy simultaneously so that you do not need to make another reservation. The reservation is easy and convenient requiring short waiting time. Generally, with the reservation three days in advance, you can receive the examination in the hospital.

With the cooperation and coordination between experienced high seniority physicians from Gastroenterology and Anesthesiology throughout the overall process, the examination is performed when you are sleeping leaving almost no discomfort during and after the inspection.

Who needs gastrointestinal endoscopy?

1. People infected with helicobacter pylori;

2. Veteran smokers and drinkers and high-caloric, high-protein and low fiber diets intakers;

3. People with direct relatives suffering from digestive tumors

4. People suffering from gastritis, gastric ulcer, gastric polyp, gastrorrhagia, anemia, emaciation and huge mental stress;

5. People suffering from hematochezia, abdominalgia, diarrhea, constipation, changes in bowel habits and abdominal mass;

6. Asymptomatic people over 40 years old should be subject to regular gastrointestinal endoscopy.

Endoscopy Center, Wuxi Kaiyi Hospital

The Endoscopy Center of Wuxi Kaiyi Hospital (Gastroenterology), is located on the second floor of the Out-Patient Department with an area of diagnosis and treatment of more than 800 square meters, equipped with an endoscope room and more than 30 ward beds.

In terms of gastrointestinal tract disease, the Endoscopy Center (Gastroenterology) of Wuxi Kaiyi Hospital, is primarily dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic gastritis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, peptic ulcer, gastrointestinal polyp, gastrointestinal tract benign and malign tumor, digestive tract stenosis, inflammatory bowel disease, pseudomembranous enterocolitis, intestinal obstruction, functional gastrointestinal disorder, peritonitis and other diseases.

It performs routinely ordinary and painless gastrointestinal endoscopy, early gastrointestinal cancer screening, gastrointestinal polypectomy, examination and treatment of endoscopic hemostasis for gastrointestinal hemorrhage, HP check, Carbon-13 breath test, examination of gastrointestinal tumor and so on. It has taken the lead in the performance of day surgery to serve the patients of surgical treatment, aiming at the features of immediate hospital discharge posterior to brief observation and treatment of common and frequently-occurring diseases, and being able to satisfy the need of medical care among the broad patients.