Colonoscopy: Tips and Tricks is a practical guide to the fundamentals of this very common medical procedure. Specialists will also find it a useful refresher tool and trainees in gastroenterology and practicing endoscopist doctors will find it an indispensable resource. Simply split into four sections, Pre-procedure, Basic Procedure, Operative Procedures and Post-procedure, the reader will be taken through the basics of performing colonoscopy in a step-by-step fashion, with full attention given to setting up the colonoscopy setting and preparing the patient as well as the fundamentals behind the different procedures themselves. Authored by one the world’s leading expert in colonoscopy, Jerry Waye, along with an up and coming GI fellow at Mount Sinai. Complete with a companion website featuring approximately 40 video clips of colonoscopy procedures being performed by leading experts.
www.wiley.com/go/waye/practicalcolonoscopy
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.
