The endoscopy unit and staff -- Staff -- Facilities -- Management and behaviour -- Documentation -- Educational resources -- Equipment -- A brief history -- Endoscopes -- Endoscopic accessories -- Ancillary equipment -- Energy sources -- Equipment maintenance -- Infection control -- Cleaning and disinfection -- Patient care -- Indications for upper endoscopy -- Patient preparation -- Risks, unplanned events (complications) -- Predicting and reducing risks -- Monitoring -- Medications and sedation practice -- Recovery and discharge -- Risk management -- Diagnostic upper endoscopy techniques -- Endoscope handling -- Passing the endoscope -- Routine diagnostic survey -- Problems during endoscopy -- Recognition of lesions -- Specimen collection -- Endoscopy in special circumstances -- Therapeutic upper endoscopy -- Benign esophageal strictures -- Achalasia -- Esophageal cancer palliation -- Gastric and duodenal stenosis -- Gastric and duodenal polyps and tumors -- Foreign bodies -- Acute bleeding -- Enteral nutrition -- Colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy.
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This book reflects developments in the field of endoscopy over the last 20 years. It draws on the vast experience of the authors and heralds current changes in both endoscopy and publishing. The emerging 'back to basics' attitude of endoscopy opinion formers with regard to the teaching of endoscopy has resulted in a more focused table of contents specifically targeted at newcomers to this specialty.
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