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Offers practical guidance on the fundamentals of standard endoscopy practice.
List of contents
Preface to the Sixth Edition.
Acknowledgments.
1 The Endoscopy Unit and Staff.
Staff.
Facilities.
Management and behavior.
Documentation.
Educational resources.
2 Endoscopic Equipment.
Endoscopes.
Endoscopic accessories.
Ancillary equipment.
Electrosurgical units.
Lasers and argon plasma coagulation.
Equipment maintenance.
Infection control.
Cleaning and disinfection.
3 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 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.
7 Therapeutic Colonoscopy.
Equipment.
Polypectomy.
Other therapeutic procedures.
8 Resources and Links.
Web sites.
Endoscopy books.
Journals with major endoscopy/clinical focus.
Index
