In patients undergoing colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer, deeper sedation using the anesthetic drug propofol may improve detection of "serrated" polyps—a type of precancerous lesion that can ...

Mayo Clinic Health System added about 150 colonoscopies a month in Eau Claire, Wis., by moving appropriate patients from anesthesia care to nurse-administered conscious sedation. The change started ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Earlier this week the federal ...

In patients undergoing colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer, deeper sedation using the anesthetic drug propofol may improve detection of "serrated" polyps - a type of precancerous lesion that ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Given a choice, most doctors and nurses who perform colonoscopy would choose to be fully anesthetized when undergoing the procedure themselves - unless they had to pay full ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is putting the brakes on a controversial policy to restrict the use of anesthesia during colonoscopies. The policy took effect Jan. 1, drawing outrage from ...

Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States and colonoscopy is the most-used screening tool to detect it. In a recently published study, researchers from the ...

The rate of anesthesia use in screening colonoscopies has increased in both physicians’ offices and ambulatory surgery centers, according to a whitepaper released by Truven Health Analytics. The ...

The woman had joked about what her sleep-talking husband might reveal after sedation. Then the anesthesiologist stepped in, ...