Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy describes procedures in great depth and addresses improved therapeutic techniques and advances in technology.
Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy focuses on the vast experience of the authors, providing clear and practical guidance on the fundamentals of standard endoscopy practice.
Contents
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 two-person?
- 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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