Bowel Dysfunction : A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Professionals
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41070
Brigitte Collins, Elissa Bradshaw, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2016.
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This definitive guide for healthcare professionals looks at functional disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and pelvic floor, as well as the treatments used within the current healthcare context.
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- Other Authors
- Collins, Brigitte
- Bradshaw, Elissa
- Responsibility
- Brigitte Collins, Elissa Bradshaw, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 269 p.) : 73 illus., 50 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319432144
- 9783319432120 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Constipation
- Fecal Incontinence
- Abstract
- This definitive guide for healthcare professionals looks at functional disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and pelvic floor, as well as the treatments used within the current healthcare context.
- Contents
- Part I. Introduction -- 1. The Background -- 2. Anatomy and Physiology of the Large Bowel (Colon) and Pelvic Floor -- 3. The Epidemiology of Faecal Incontinence and Constipation -- 4. Investigations -- Part II. Causes and Assessment of Bowel Dysfunction -- 5. The Causes of Constipation -- 6. The Assessment of Constipation -- 7. Causes of Faecal Incontinence - 8. The Assessment of Faecal Incontinence -- Part III. Treatments for Bowel Dysfunction -- 9. Conservative Management -- 10. Food Choice as a Management Strategy in Bowel Dysfunction -- 11. The Pharmacological Management of Chronic Constipation and Faecal Incontinence -- 12. Rectal Irrigation -- 13. Neuromodulation -- 14. Surgery -- 15. Psychological Medicine for Bowel Dysfunction.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
