NUTRITION ISSUES IN GASTROENTEROLOGY, SERIS #184

Carol Rees Parrish, Stacey McCray

Identifying issues that interfere with adequate provision of enteral nutrition (EN) and getting to the root cause of EN intolerance or complications increases the likelihood that patients will receive the nutrition intended. Part I of this series discussed the practice of listening to bowel sounds and checking gastric residual volumes as determinants of GI tract function. In Part II, several other barriers to effective EN are discussed, including diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, pain, constipation and initiation and progression of EN.

FRONTIERS IN ENDOSCOPY, SERIES #49

Jay Dubroff, Douglas G. Adler

In this article we discuss the EDGE procedure, which provides the endoscopist another potential modality for accomplishing ERCP in the technically challenging RYGB anatomy.

THE MICROBIOME AND DISEASE, SERIES #7

Skylar Steinberg, Sabine Hazan

The digestive tract's microbial ecosystem is tailored for specific geographic areas. Here we discuss how the rise of globalization has spurred a mass transition of the European and American microbiome worldwide, altering the unique digestive patterns and processes of other nations. We can partially attribute our global obesity epidemic to the decrease in microbial diversity because of a larger adaptation of a Western diet.

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