Advanced Digestive Endoscopy: Practice and Safety (Advanced Digestive Endoscopy)

Essential new title in the Advanced Digestive Endoscopy seriesAdvanced Digestive Endoscopy: Practice & Safety provides a practical manual on how to perform techniques safely and effectively in order to maximise value, and to reduce risks. Clearly structured, it covers training, endoscopy and imaging equipment, infection control, patient preparation and monitoring, complications and how to avoid and deal with them. Expanding on the content of Peter Cotton’s best-selling Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, this instructive volume contains information and guidelines on all aspects of the practice of endoscopy, and is an ideal companion for both the trainee and the experienced endoscopist.Key features include:Written by the leading international names in endoscopy Text has been expertly edited by Peter Cotton into a succinct and instructive format Presented in short paragraphs structured with headings, subheadings and bullet points Richly illustrated throughout with full-color photographs Provides A Practical Manual On How To Perform Techniques Safely And Effectively In Order To Maximise Value, And To Reduce Risks. Clearly Structured, It Covers Training, Endoscopy And Imaging Equipment, Infection Control, Patient Preparation And Monitoring, Complications And How To Avoid And Deal With Them. Expanding On The Content Of Peter Cotton's Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, This Instructive Volume Contains Information And Guidelines On All Aspects Of The Practice Of Endoscopy. It Is Presented In Short Paragraphs Structured With Headings, Subheadings And Bullet Points And Is Richly Illustrated Throughout With Full-color Photographs. Overview / Peter B. Cotton -- Design And Management Of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Units / Bret T. Petersen And Beverly Ott -- Sedation, Analgesia, And Monitoring For Endoscopy / John J. Vargo -- Endoscopic Equipment / Gregory G. Ginsberg -- Digital Documentation In Endoscopy / Lars Aabakken -- Principles Of Electrosurgery, Laser And Argon Plasma Coagulation With Particular Regard To Colonoscopy / Guenter Farin And Karl E. Grund -- Infection Control In Endoscopy / Alistair Cowen And Dianne Jones -- Risks, Prevention, And Management / Peter B. Cotton -- Pathology / David N. Lewin -- Pediatric Gastrointestinal Endoscopy / Jonathan S. Evans And Lori Mahajan -- Training And Credentialing In Gastrointestinal Endoscopy / Jonathan Cohen -- Towards Excellence And Accountability / Peter B. Cotton And Roland Valori. Edited By Peter B. Cotton. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Overview / Peter B. Cotton Design and management of gastrointestinal endoscopy units / Bret T. Petersen and Beverly Ott Sedation, analgesia, and monitoring for endoscopy / John J. Vargo Endoscopic equipment / Gregory Ginsberg Digital documentation in endoscopy / Lars Aabakken Principles of electrosurgery, laser and argon plasma coagulation with particular regard to colonoscopy / Guenter Farin and Karl Ernst Grund Infection control in endoscopy / Alistair Cowen and Dianne Jones Risks, prevention, and management / Peter B. Cotton Pathology / David Lewin Pediatric gastrointestinal endoscopy / Jonathan S. Evans and Lori Mahajan Training and credentialing in gastrointestinal endoscopy / Jonathan Cohen Towards excellence and accountability / Peter B. Cotton and Roland Valori. Essential new title in the Advanced Digestive Endoscopy series Advanced Digestive Endoscopy: Practice & Safety provides a practical manual on how to perform techniques safely and effectively in order to maximise value, and to reduce risks. Clearly structured, it covers training, endoscopy and imaging equipment, infection control, patient preparation and monitoring, complications and how to avoid and deal with them. Expanding on the content of Peter Cotton's best-selling Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, this instructive volume contains information and guid Essential new title in the Advanced Digestive Endoscopy series Endoscopy is a technically challenging procedure. Until recently it was regarded as a routine procedure that could be performed by general gastroenterologists until outcome and follow-up analyses revealed unacceptably high levels of complications.