Endoscopes

=What is an Endoscope?= toc An Endoscope is a small surgical video device used during procedures called Endoscopy by surgeons. Endoscopes make surgery's with small incisions a lot easier for the surgeon, and a lot more comforting and safer by giving surgeons visual access underneath the skin making things a lot easier for the surgeons performing the surgery, and provides more comfort for the patient making them feel a lot safer, and more relaxed.

What are Endoscopes Used for?
Endoscopes are a surgical tool that is used by surgeons during a number of different surgery`s such as, plastic surgery )especially during brow lifts and trans-umbilical breast augmentation procedures), and a lot other surgery`s where a visual image from inside the human body is needed, also Endoscopes are used to examine, and illuminate the inside hard to see sections of the human body. Endoscopes can be inserted from a number of different places in the human body such as the anus, throat, also surgeons can perform small incisions on a place of the human body for an easier access to where ever the surgeon needs to get to inside the human body.

Amnioscopy - examination of the amniotic cavity and fetus. Arthroscopy - examination of the joints. Bronchoscopy - examination of the air passages and the lungs. Colonoscopy - examination of the colon.

Colposcopy - examination of the cervix and the tissues of the vagina and vulva.

Cystoscopy - examination of the urinary bladder. EGD (Esophageal Gastroduodenoscopy), also known as panendoscopy - examination of the esophagus, stomach and duodenum.

ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography) - examination of the liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, and pancreas.

Fetoscopy - examination of the fetus.

Laparoscopy - a small incision to examine the abdominal cavity.

Laryngoscopy - examination of the back of the throat, including the voice box (larynx) and vocal cords.

Proctoscopy - examination of the rectum and the end of the colon.

Rhinoscopy - examination of the inside of the nose.

Thoracoscopy - examination of the lungs or other structures in the chest cavit.

History of the Endoscope The first ever Endoscope was created in the year of 1805 and was designed and built by a German physician Phillip Bozzini. The Endoscope was originally called the Lichtleiter and was made of various tubes, including a special cannula for the urethra and bladder, and a wax candle in a special holder or cradle for illumination. The Lichtleiter did not allow a direct visual of all the human insides, it allowed a direct visual to internal body cavities that were not visible without the Lichtleiter such as the bladder. During the development of the Lichtleiter the device was hauled to a stop by Bozzini`s medical contemporaries for 50 years.

In the year of 1853, a French surgeon named Antonin Jean Desormeaux used a modified lichtleiter to examine patients mainly for urological problems. A system of mirrors and lenses improved the visualization of the Lichtleiter, and instead of a wax candle, he used a much brighter lamp flame from a burni ng mixture of alcohol and turpentine to illuminate the inside of the human body, this caused a lot of painful, and unfortunate burns on patients. Eve though these modifications caused pain for some of the patients, this version of the lichtleiter was considered reasonably successful.

German physician Maximilian Nitze designed the first successful modern cystoscope in 1877 and is credited as the father of cystoscopy. Built by Josef Leiter of Vienna and used exclusively for bladder examinations, it also used incandescent lighting provided by an electrically heated platinum wire; however, it added a cooling system of flowing ice water and telescopic lenses for visualization, which solved many of the problems with earlier instruments.



Endoscopy Procedure Video
[] This video will show how an Endoscope is used, how an Endoscope works, what it is used for, a typical Endoscopy procedure, and what the patient must do to prepare for an Endoscopy.

Definition Table

 * = Word ||= Definition ||
 * = Endoscopy ||= Looking inside the body for medical reasons using an endoscope,an instrument used to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body. ||
 * = Endoscopies ||= Different types of surgery's performed with an endoscope ||
 * = Lichtleiter ||= Light conductor ||
 * = Illumination ||= A source of light ||
 * = Contemporaries ||= A person of the present age ||
 * = Urological ||= The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the urinary tract and urogenital sy ||