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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