Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: The Fundamentals, 6th Edition

by Peter B. Cotton; Christopher B. Williams; With: Robert H. Hawes; With: Brian P. Saunders

• ISBN13: 9781444300826
• ISBN10: 1444300822
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has become the basic primer for endoscopy around the world. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Drawing on the vast experience of the authors it provides clear and practical guidance on the fundamentals of standard endoscopy practice. It describes procedures in great depth and addresses improved therapeutic techniques and advances in technology.The book is well illustrated throughout with color line drawings and diagrams. It is an indispensable resource for all trainees in gastroenterology and essential read for all practising endoscopists who are interested in improving their techniques.Peter B. Cotton and Christopher B. Williams are joined in this sixth edition by two new authors, Rob H. Hawes and Brian P. Saunders.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Sixth Edition

Acknowledgments

The Endoscopy Unit and Staff

Staff

Facilities

Management and behavior

Documentation

Educational resources

Endoscopic Equipment

Endoscopes

Endoscopic accessories

Ancillary equipment

Electrosurgical units

Lasers and argon plasma coagulation

Equipment maintenance

Infection control

Cleaning and disinfection

Patient Care, Risks, and Safety

Patient assessment

Patient education and consent

Physical preparation

Monitoring

Medications and sedation practice

Recovery and discharge

Managing an adverse event

Upper Endoscopy: Diagnostic Techniques

Patient position

Endoscope handling

Passing the endoscope

Routine diagnostic survey

Problems during endoscopy

Recognition of lesions

Specimen collection

Diagnostic endoscopy under special circumstances

Therapeutic Upper Endoscopy

Benign esophageal strictures

Achalasia

Esophageal cancer palliation

Gastric and duodenal stenoses

Gastric and duodenal polyps and tumors

Foreign bodies

Acute bleeding

Enteral nutrition

Colonoscopy and Flexible Sigmoidoscopy

History

Indications and limitations

Informed consent

Contraindications and infective hazards

Patient preparation

Medication

Equipment-present and future

Anatomy

Insertion

Handling-"single-handed," "two-handed," or twoperson?

Sigmoidoscopy-accurate steering

Endoscopic anatomy of the sigmoid and descending

colon

Sigmoidoscopy-the bends

Sigmoidoscopy-the loops

Diverticular disease

Descending colon

Splenic flexure

Transverse colon

Hepatic flexure

Ascending colon and ileo-cecal region

Examination of the colon

Stomas

Pediatric colonoscopy

Per-operative colonoscopy

Therapeutic Colonoscopy

Equipment

Polypectomy

Other therapeutic procedures

Resources and Links

Web sites

Endoscopy books

Journals with major endoscopy/clinical focus

Index

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