Preface to the Sixth Edition.
Acknowledgments.

1 The Endoscopy Unit and Staff.

Staff.

Facilities.

Management and behavior.

Documentation.

Educational resources.

2 Endoscopic Equipment.

Endoscopes.

Endoscopic accessories.

Ancillary equipment.

Electrosurgical units.

Lasers and argon plasma coagulation.

Equipment maintenance.

Infection control.

Cleaning and disinfection.

3 Patient Care, Risks, and Safety.

Patient assessment.

Patient education and consent.

Physical preparation.

Monitoring.

Medications and sedation practice.

Recovery and discharge.

Managing an adverse event.

4 Upper Endoscopy: Diagnostic Techniques.

Patient position.

Endoscope handling.

Passing the endoscope.

Routine diagnostic survey.

Problems during endoscopy.

Recognition of lesions.

Specimen collection.

Diagnostic endoscopy under special circumstances.

5 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.

6 Colonoscopy and Flexible Sigmoidoscopy.

History.

Indications and limitations.

Informed consent.

Contraindications and infective hazards.

Patient preparation.

Medication.

Equipment present and future.

Anatomy.

Insertion.

Handling single-handed, two-handed, or twoperson?.

Sigmoidoscopy accurate steering.

Endoscopic anatomy of the sigmoid and descending.

colon.

Sigmoidoscopy the bends.

Sigmoidoscopy the loops.

Diverticular disease.

Descending colon.

Splenic flexure.

Transverse colon.

Hepatic flexure.

Ascending colon and ileo-cecal region.

Examination of the colon.

Stomas.

Pediatric colonoscopy.

Per-operative colonoscopy.

7 Therapeutic Colonoscopy.

Equipment.

Polypectomy.

Other therapeutic procedures.

8 Resources and Links.

Web sites.

Endoscopy books.

Journals with major endoscopy/clinical focus.

Index.