A study of the IHP demonstrates the safety of endoscopic approach in neonates with suspected GI bleeding.

Seville, January 2012.- The direct investigation of gastrointestinal bleeding in neonates is usually made with techniques such as ultrasound or x-rays, but these procedures are not very useful to make the diagnosis. However, in adults and children older is routinely by endoscopy. This procedure is not usually considered by all medical personnel of the neonatology units ”, explains Dr. Rodríguez Herrera child Gastroenterology Seville Pediatrics Institute (IHP) team.

Faced with this reality, the IHP launched a couple of years ago a study of clinical research on endoscopic approach in neonates with gastrointestinal bleeding suspected to prove their safety and their usefulness for improving the diagnosis.

Began to appreciate that there were newborn infants in which it was not known if there was a digestive bleeding or not, or which was his exact anatomical origin. Experience in clinical management of infants and endoscopy of the child we encourage you to join this procession of experiences in order to develop neonatal endoscopy. It expected improved handling and shorten the time of recovery of these infants ”, points out the specialist, who says that it was necessary to improve the process of information to parents to be an unusual technique and with which they are unfamiliar.

In our study all explorations were carried out without complications and served to clarify the origin of the clinical symptoms, what has proved to neonatologists the safety of the procedure and its usefulness in Diagnostics ”, explains the team of Gastroenterology of the IHP.

Institute of Seville of Pediatrics

The IHP is one of the first centres Monográficos Pediatrics at Spain, within private and medicine agreed with the national health system. Today it has more than 100 pediatricians and 20 pediatric medical specialties, which offers its patients a personalized assistance in the provinces of Cádiz, Málaga, Huelva and Seville.