Welcome to the Community Endoscopy Website

The following pages contain information on the endoscopy units that are involved, the staff that work at them and general information about the procedures that we routinely perform. You will also find information on the common gastroenterological complaints and useful advice on what you can do to help these conditions.
 
TRANS NASAL GASTROSCOPY – NEW AND MORE COMFORTABLE
 
For just over a year, our units have been offering a new form of gastroscopy. Routinely, a gastroscope is passed through the mouth and on into the stomach (oral gastroscopy). This is done either with a local anaesthetic spray to numb the throat or, less commonly, with a mild sedative.

The newer form of gastroscopy – trans-nasal gastroscopy – allows a thinner scope to be passed through the nose and into the stomach. This is done after numbing the nasal passages with an anaesthetic spray and jelly. This technique offers huge advantages to the patient over the more conventional oral gastroscopy with no disadvantages.

For more detail and to see a short video clip of this, please look under the procedures section.