The risk of severe complications during colonoscopy is very low. This risk should be kept low when changing strategies to reduce discomfort during the examination. The increased use of deep sedation from <10% in 2000 to 35% in 2009 might have its downsides in years to come if the trend con...
Conscious sedation is a type of sedation in which the sedated person can respond to directions, but does not feel pain. Those...
The risk of severe complications during colonoscopy is very low. This risk should be kept low when changing strategies to reduce discomfort during the examination. The increased use of deep sedation from <10% in 2000 to 35% in 2009 might have its downsides in years to come if the trend ...
Conscious sedation is a type of sedation in which the sedated person can respond to directions, but does not feel pain. Those...
A colonoscopy is generally done under sedation in a hospital. Surgery If manual (or colonoscope-assisted) disimpaction is successful, surgery is usually not required. Surgery is usually only needed if the impacted stool has caused a perforation (hole) in your intestine. Follow up When the ...
You might have regional anesthesia for surgery on your: Hip Knee Hand Feet An epidural, used to block pain during childbirth, is another kind of regional anesthesia. Sedation is used for: Procedures to diagnose problems, like a colonoscopy, upper endoscopy, bronchoscopy, or cystoscopy ...
of my bag to access my stoma. He first used a gloved finger to assess the entrance (exit?) of my stoma and which was my gut went from there before inserting the scope (which is apparently smaller than the ones used for colonoscopies..?) I didn’t ask for sedation but had been ...