An upper endoscopy is usually done with anesthesia, meaning you will either be fully unconscious or sleepy from medications.

Unwillingness of insurers to reimburse anesthesia care for some procedures such as diagnostic endoscopy has increased the use of nurse-administered propofol.(1,2) Untrained nurses may be caught in ...

Propofol sedation by nonanesthesiologists is still a highly controversial issue despite the fact that numerous studies have approved this sedation regimen for gastrointestinal endoscopy.

Anesthesia plays a crucial role in the efficiency and success of ASCs, particularly in gastroenterology procedures. Five GI leaders recently joined Becker’s to discuss growing challenges and what they ...

Sedation during endoscopy by intravenous benzodiazepines and opiates is effective and practiced routinely, but potentially causes adverse effects in elderly patients and in those with ...

Anesthesia providers are increasingly sounding the alarm ... Insurers have tried already to change the landscape (e.g. endoscopy, fixed fees based on procedure codes) but it will likely be the ...

Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG ... Although ESG does not use surgical incisions, patients undergo general anesthesia during the procedure. ESG is done as an outpatient procedure. Most patients ...

Patients were randomly allocated to undergo gastrointestinal endoscopy with either propofol ... group performed markedly worse 2 h after sedation, compared with baseline, but the driving skills ...