About the Book
Practical Colonoscopy - Jerome D. Waye, MD, Director of Endoscopic Education, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA. James Aisenberg, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA. Peter H. Rubin, MD , Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA. Are you looking for a rapid-reference, step-by-step guide to teach you all that you need to know in order to perform high-quality colonoscopy? Then Practical Colonoscopy is the perfect resource for you. Drawing upon their collective century of experience performing and teaching colonoscopy, Drs. Waye, Aisenberg and Rubin share the "pearls" and principles that they find most useful in every day practice. The team is led by Dr. Jerry Waye, one of the world's leading practitioners and teachers of endoscopy. Up-to-date, practical, clinically-focused, succinct and packed full of outstanding illustrations and videos, this multi-media tool guides you through the core aspects of best colonoscopy practice.
Key features include: lucid, step-by-step explanations of the techniques and principles that will help you to achieve outstanding results; a companion website that contains 39 videos illustrating important techniques, findings, and problems; text-boxes that highlight and organize the pearls and pitfalls of colonoscopy practice; line diagrams that illustrate important strategies and maneuvers; and high-resolution still photographs that depict important findings and techniques. GI trainees will find this the perfect introductory guide to colonoscopy, and more experienced specialists will value it as a refresher tool that is replete with hundreds of new pearls provided by world experts. Practical Colonoscopy is a must-have tool for today's colonoscopist.
Table of Contents:
List of Video Clips, vii Preface, x About the companion website, xii Section 1: Pre-procedure 1 The Endoscopy Unit, Colonoscope, and Accessories, 3 2 The Role of the Endoscopy Assistant during Colonoscopy, 16 3 Indications and Contraindications for Colonoscopy, 24 4 Preparation for Colonoscopy, 30 Section 2: Basic Procedure 5 Sedation for Colonoscopy, 39 6 Colonoscopy Technique: The Ins and Outs, 46 7 Colonoscopic Findings, 69 8 Diagnostic Biopsy, 83 Section 3: Operative Procedures 9 Thermal Techniques: Electrosurgery, Argon Plasma Coagulation, and Laser, 91 10 Basic Principles and Techniques of Polypectomy, 99 11 Difficult Polypectomy, 116 12 Management of Malignant Polyps, 132 13 Therapeutic Colonoscopy, 140 14 Complications of Colonoscopy, 147 Section 4: Current and Future Considerations 15 Quality in Colonoscopy, 161 16 Teaching and Training in Colonoscopy, 167 17 Computed Tomographic Colonography ("Virtual" Colonoscopy), 175 18 Advanced Imaging Techniques, 178 19 The Future of Colonoscopy, 186 Index, 191 Plate section can be found facing page 52
About the Author :
Jerome D. Waye, MD, Director of Endoscopic Education, Associate Medical Director of Endoscopy, Mount Sinai Medical Centre, New York, USA. Dr Waye served has been Chief of Endoscopy at Mount Sinai for more than 20 years and is an internationally renowned endoscopist and an expert in the removal of large polyps. He is currently president-elect of the World Organization of Digestive Endoscopy. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
James Aisenberg, MD, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, USA. Dr. Aisenberg is the Clinical Professor of Medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital. He graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his gastroenterology fellowship at The Mount Sinai Hospital. He has published over 100 articles, chapters, and abstracts in leading peer-reviewed journals. He is the President of the Digestive Disease Research Foundation.
Peter H. Rubin, MD, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, USA. Dr Rubin is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and former co-Director of the Mount Sinai Endoscopy Suite. Dr. Rubin practices general gastroenterology with a focus on inflammatory bowel disease and dysplastic colon polyps. Dr Rubin has contributed to four articles on PubMed.
