I am writing to stress the importance of ensuring that anesthesia is routinely used during colonoscopies at Georgetown Public Hospital Coroporation. A colonoscopy is a vital procedure used to ...

He has started prescribing a new kind of screening — the Shield blood test — for his patients who are hesitant to get a colonoscopy. For a decade, we've had stool collection kits like Cologuard. In ...

He has an appointment for a colonoscopy next month, and I’m concerned about how the anesthesia will affect his already compromised short-term memory. I saw the same thing happen with my father ...

To prepare for your colonoscopy, understand which anesthesia options are available to you. Deep sedation with propofol is a common and effective method for anesthesia during a colonoscopy.

One solution to a critical shortage of anesthesiologists in Canada could lie with increasing the ranks of anesthesia ...

Or they have a fear of having a medical procedure, or the risk of anesthesia doesn't make a colonoscopy the right choice for them. Sometimes, they just put it off, said Dr. Antoine Pham ...

Recovery from a colonoscopy, an examination of the large intestine used to screen for colon cancer, takes about a day. While the procedure lasts only around an hour, it takes at least one hour to ...

could not fully complete our colonoscopy. I must also note that I was never given any option of sedation/anesthesia. I merely went to my first clinic date at the GI clinic and after stating ...

Colonoscopy prep is complete once your poop is a light yellow with no dark particles. You'll need to follow a specific low-residue diet to empty your colon. During this process, your stool will change ...