PRACTICAL GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY The fundamental guide to gastrointestinal endoscopy returns in a fully updated new edition
For over forty years, Cotton and Williams’ Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has offered a clear, accessible introduction to the fundamentals of endoscopy, from patient positioning to the range of available procedures. Now updated by a new authorial team to reflect the latest advances in endoscopic procedures, this text promises to serve a new generation of trainees and specialists as the essential introduction to upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy.
Readers of the eighth edition of Cotton and Williams’ Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy will also find:
- Updated online resources including a downloadable bank of clinical images
- High-quality videos illustrating endoscopic practices and procedures, linked to specific points in the text
Cotton and Williams’ Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy remains a must-own for all trainee and specialist gastroenterologists and endoscopists.
Table of Contents:
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
About the Author :
Catharine M. Walsh, MD, MEd, PhD, FRCPC is an Associate Professor of Paediatrics at The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Ahmir Ahmad, MBBS, BSc, MRCP, PhD is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at St. Mark’s Hospital, London, UK.
Brian P. Saunders, MD, FRCP, FRCS is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at St. Mark’s Hospital and Professor of Endoscopy at Imperial College, London, UK.
Jonathan Cohen, MD, FASGE, FACG is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, USA.
Peter B. Cotton, MD, FRCP, FRCS is a Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA.
Christopher B. Williams, BM, FRCP, FRCS was a Consultant Physician in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy at St. Mark’s Hospital, London, UK.
