Bowel dysfunction : a comprehensive guide for healthcare professionals /: a comprehensive guide for healthcare professionals. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Brigitte Collins, Elissa Bradshaw, editors.
• Editors: Collins, Brigitte; Bradshaw, Elissa
• Contents: Part 1. Introduction -- 1. Background to bowel function and rationale for writing the book -- 2. Normal anatomy and physiology of bowel function with a view to including detail on the pelvic floor -- 3. Epidemiology Constipation and FI -- 4. Investigations: Anorectal Physiology -- Part 2. Causes and Assessment of Bowel Dysfunction -- 5. Causes of constipation/evacuatory dysfunction -- 6. The Assessment of Constipation and Evacuatory Disorders -- 7. Causes of faecal incontinence -- 8. The Assessment of Faecal Incontinence -- Part 3. Treatments for Bowel Dysfunction -- 9. Conservative management -- 10. Food choice as a Management Strategy in Bowel Dysfunction -- 11. Pharmacological therapy -- 12. Rectal Irrigation -- 13. Neuromodulation -- 14. Surgery -- 15. Psychological medicine for bowel dysfunction.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 616.3/4; Medicine; Intestines -- Diseases; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Intestines -- Diseases; Intestinal Diseases; Medicine & Public Health; Nursing; Gastroenterology; Colorectal Surgery; Medical -- Gastroenterology; Medical -- Surgery -- Colon & Rectal; Gastroenterology; Gastrointestinal & colorectal surgery; Nursing; Gastroenterology; Colon (Anatomy) -- Surgery; Medical -- Nursing -- General; Nursing; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319432144; 3319432141
• Related ISBNs: 9783319432120; 3319432125
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 10, 2017).
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