Table of Contents

List of Video Clips, xi

Preface to the Seventh Edition, xii

Preface to the First Edition, xiv

Acknowledgments, xv

About the Companion Website, xvi

1 The Endoscopy Unit, Staff, and Management, 1

2 Endoscopic Equipment, 6

3 Patient Care, Risks, and Safety, 19

4 Upper Endoscopy: Diagnostic Techniques, 33

5 Therapeutic Upper Endoscopy, 54

6 Colonoscopy and Flexible Sigmoidoscopy, 78

7 Therapeutic Colonoscopy, 153

8 Resources and Links, 180

Websites, 180

Endoscopy books, 180

Journals with major endoscopy/clinical focus, 180

Epilogue: The Future? Comments from the Senior

Authors, 181

Intelligent endoscopes, 181

Colonoscopy—boon or bubble?, 181

Advanced therapeutics, cooperation, and multidisciplinary working, 181

Quality and teaching, 182

Index, 183

About the Author

Adam Haycock, Consultant Physician &Gastroenterologist, St Mark s Hospital for Colorectal andIntestinal Disorders, London, UK Jonathan Cohen, Clinical Professor of Medicine, NewYork University School of Medicine, New York, USA Brian P. Saunders, Consultant Gastroenterologist, StMark s Hospital for Colorectal and Intestinal Disorders,London, UK Peter B. Cotton, Professor of Medicine, MedicalUniversity of South Carolina, Charleston, USA Christopher B. Williams, Honorary Physician, StMark s Hospital for Colorectal and Intestinal Disorders,London, UK