Cotton and Williams' Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

List of Video Clips

Preface to the Eighth Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Acknowledgments

About the Companion Website

1 Welcome to Endoscopy

Resources and links

2 The Endoscopy Unit, Staff, and Management

Endoscopy units

Staff

Management, behavior, and teamwork

Documentation and quality improvement

Educational resources

Further reading

3 Endoscopic Equipment

Endoscopes

Endoscopic accessories

Ancillary equipment

Electrosurgical units

Lasers and argon plasma coagulation

Equipment maintenance

Infection control

Cleaning and disinfection

Further reading

4 Patient Care, Risks, and Safety

Patient assessment

Patient education and consent

Physical preparation

Sedation/anesthesia

Recovery and discharge

Managing adverse events

Further reading

5 Upper Endoscopy: The Fundamentals

Patient position

Endoscopist position

Endoscope handling

Passing the endoscope

Routine diagnostic survey

Problems during endoscopy

Recognition of lesions

Specimen collection

Diagnostic endoscopy under special circumstances

Further reading

Chapter video clips

6 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

Further reading

7 Colonoscopy and Flexible Sigmoidoscopy: The Fundamentals

History

Indications and limitations, and alternatives

Informed consent

Contraindications and infective hazards

Patient preparation

Medication

Equipment—present and future

Anatomy

Insertion

Handling “single-handed,” “two-handed,” or two-person?

Sigmoid colon—accurate steering

Endoscopic anatomy of the sigmoid and descending colon

Sigmoid colon—the bends

Sigmoid colon—the loops

Diverticular disease

Descending colon

Splenic flexure

Transverse colon

Hepatic flexure

Ascending colon and ileo-cecal region

Overtubes and balloon colonoscopy

Examination of the colon

Stomas

Pediatric ileocolonoscopy

Per-operative colonoscopy

Further reading

Chapter video clips

8 Therapeutic Colonoscopy

Equipment

Principles of polyp electrosurgery

Approach to polypectomy

Selection of polypectomy technique

Polypectomy: Diminutive and small polyps

Polypectomy: Large polyps

Polypectomy: Problem polyps

Recovery of polypectomy specimens

Risks of polypectomy

Other therapeutic procedures

Further reading

Chapter video clips

9 Advanced Endoscopic Procedures

Small bowel endoscopy

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)

Bariatric endoscopy

Anti-reflux procedures

Third space procedures and NOTES

Epilogue: The Future? Comments from the Senior Authors

Index