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Surgical Endoscopy Centre
Endoscopy Suite: B5, Main Block, Queen Mary Hospital
Phone number: 2255 5369
Fax number: 2255 5454
Email: endounit@hku.hk
Director: Professor Kent-Man Chu,
Head Nurse: Anna Tang
Figure 1. Nursing and supporting staffs of the Surgical Endoscopy Centre
The Centre
The Surgical Endoscopy Centre is a state-of-the-art centre for the performance
of endoscopic examination, intervention, and related procedures. Nursing
staffs of the Centre are specialized in the field of endoscopy. In addition
to the normal working hours, the Centre also provides 24 hours' emergency
coverage for conditions like gastrointestinal bleeding.
There are three main endoscopy procedure rooms (one of which is equipped
with X-ray facilities), one laser therapy room, one gastrointestinal physiology
study room, one urea breath test room, as well as one ultrasonographic
and interventional study room.
Figure 2. Endoscopy procedure room
Figure 3. Endoscopy procedure room with x-ray facilities
Figure 4. Laser therapy room
Figure 5. Urea breath test
Figure 6. Ultrasound machine
Figure 7. Endoscopic Ultrasound Machine
The Centre has a whole array of modern endoscopes of different types
that cover virtually all body systems for which endoscopic examination
or intervention is indicated (for example, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary
and pancreatic, respiratory, ear, nose and throat, and urological systems).
Special endoscopes for children are also available.
Figure 8. Examples of endoscopes
The procedures
The Centre provides first class endoscopy service to the society of Hong
Kong. All services are led by specialists of the field.
The workload of the Centre is heavy, with an average of 12,000 procedures
performed annually. This figure represents two-thirds of all endoscopic
procedures performed in Queen Mary Hospital. The following table summarises
the various endoscopic procedures performed in the year of 2005.
| Procedure |
In-Patients |
Out-Patients |
Sub Total |
| Bronchoscopy |
754 |
100 |
854 |
| Cholangiogram |
66 |
0 |
66 |
| Choledochoscopy |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Colonoscopy |
1523 |
25 |
1548 |
| Duodenoscopy |
19 |
2 |
21 |
| ENT Exam |
5 |
7 |
12 |
| Enteroscopy |
2 |
2 |
4 |
| ERCP |
754 |
0 |
754 |
| EUS Biliary tract & pancreas |
8 |
0 |
8 |
| EUS Oesophagus / stomach |
117 |
103 |
220 |
| EUS Rectum |
11 |
32 |
43 |
| Flexible Cystoscopy |
341 |
322 |
663 |
| FNA |
197 |
269 |
466 |
| Laryngoscopy |
19 |
20 |
39 |
| Nasoendoscopy |
35 |
197 |
232 |
| Nasopharyngoscopy |
22 |
33 |
55 |
| Oesophagoscopy |
86 |
341 |
427 |
| OGD |
2016 |
1588 |
3604 |
| Others |
25 |
5 |
30 |
| Panendoscopy |
428 |
463 |
891 |
| Proctoscopy |
5 |
1 |
6 |
| PTBD |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Sigmoidoscopy |
222 |
644 |
866 |
| Ultrasound |
411 |
429 |
840 |
| Urea Breath Tests |
|
313 |
313 |
| Grand Total |
7067 |
4896 |
11963 |
Research and training
In addition to endoscopy services, the Centre is in the frontiers of
endoscopy research with numerous scientific publications in major international
peer-reviewed journals.
Examples of some of the recent studies are:
- Somatostatin prophylaxis for post-ERCP pancreatitis
- Endoscopic ultrasound for acute pancreatitis
- Early vs delayed ERCP for acute cholangitis
- Endoscopic metallic stenting for esophageal cancer
- EUS for the detection of ascites in gastric cancer
- Endoscopic metallic stenting for acute colonic obstruction by cancer
- Manometric and bowel function studies after low anterior resection
The Centre is a major training ground for both surgical trainees and
nursing staffs. All surgical trainees undergo training in endoscopy under
the supervision of specialists. Generations of surgical trainees have
benefited from the training they received in the Centre.
Apart from training nursing staffs for the Centre, nursing staffs of
the emergency surgical wards also undergo short-term training at the Centre
so as to be able to assist in emergency endoscopy during the after hours.
The Centre also participates in postgraduate training courses for both
international and local digestive societies. A special module for Master
of Medical Sciences on " Principles and Practice of Endoscopy"
is also available. Please refer to the following websites for further
information:
http://www.hku.hk/facmed/postg/mmedsc/mmedsc.html
and
http://www.hku.hk/facmed/postg/mmedsc/index.html.
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