Surgeons dealing with esophageal disease should be competent in using both the rigid and the fiberoptic esophagoscope.
An esophagoscopy is a procedure that allows your doctor to examine the inside of your esophagus using a long thin instrument called an endoscope. The endoscope contains a light and a camera that transmits pictures of the inside of your esophagus to a video screen.
SURGICAL PROCEDURES
- ICU Stay: No
- HOSPITAL Stay: 1 day
- TOTAL Stay in TURKEY (range in DAYS*; unless any other complications!): 2 Days
GENERAL INFO
Before Surgery
- Consultations – (Preop – *(Only Anesthesia and Chest Diseases are preoperatively included in the total charges!): Anesthesia and Chest Disease (if needed)*
- Blood Tests: Yes (Hemogram, Serology, Biochemistry, Blood type)
- Chest X-Ray: Yes
- Abdominal X-Ray: Yes
- PFT (Pulmonary Function Test): No
- V/Q Scan (Lung Ventilation / Perfusion Scan): No
- Chest and/or Abdominal CT Scan – *(If the patient have the CT scans already done, then no need to take additional CT scans preop): Yes
- PET / CT Scan (Positron Emisson Tomography): If needed! – Preop evaluation (* Not included in the total charges)!
- MRI (Chest, Abdomen and/or Brain) – *(If the patient have the MRI already done, then no need to take additional MRI preop): If needed! (* Not included in the total charges!)
- Bone Scan: No
- USG / Ultrasonography (Chest, Abdomen, and/or others) – (*Not included in the total charges!): No
During Surgery
- General Anesthesia: Yes
- Local/Regional Anesthesia: No
- Local Anesthesia + Sedation: –
- Spinal / Epidural Anesthesia: Not routine!; *If needed! *(Not included in the total charges!)
- PCA (Patient Controlled Analgesia; Epidural or IV route! – *(NOT included in the total charges!): Not routine!; *If needed for Postop Analgesia!
After Surgery
- ICU STAY: No; but the patient if unstable hemodynamically after the procedure, then she/he might be transferred to the ICU for precaution (ICU cost will be added to the total charge when discharged)*
- HOSPITAL STAY after the ICU period, if ever: 1 Day (*But, if the patient needs ICU, then the ICU days (cost) will be added to the total charge upon discharge)*
- STAY AT HOTEL after being discharged from Hospital – *’Wound Dressing’ Everyday till the Control Day!: 1-2 Days; No need for dressing!
- First CONTROL Day! – One control on the Day of discharge (the same day or post-esophagoscopy 1st Day)*
- Discharged to HOME: *Take your prescription – DO NOT FORGET! – *Patient generally could have “a safe flight to home” after the FIRST CONTROL!
- After – Esophagoscopy ( 2nd Week) – Needs CONSULTATIONS by “Medical AND Radiation Oncology Clinics”: Yes
- Late – CONTROLS (1st -3rd – 6th – 12th -24th months in concordance with “the Medical & Radiation Oncology Departments Followups”)!: Yes