Sodium sulfate solution (SuPrep®, Braintree Laboratories, MA, USA) is a recent entry into the purgative market and sodium picosulfate, the most widely used bowel preparation for colonoscopy in ...

You need to do bowel prep, but it’s not as intensive as it is for a colonoscopy. Most people don’t have sedation, like they do for a colonoscopy. The physician can still remove polyps or other ...

Deep sedation with propofol is a common and ... Most insurance policies cover a screening colonoscopy for an average-risk patient every 10 years beginning at age 45, says Dr. Lauren Bleich ...

“Although colonoscopy is the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening, most doctors and examinees consider it to be poorly accepted without sedation,” explains Hsiu-Po Wang, lead ...

Snoring while under conscious sedation during colonoscopy is a strong predictor of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a recent study by Ala Sharara et al. “Although snoring is commonly ...

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 ...

Similar findings were reported by another group of Korean investigators who prospectively studied the quality of bowel preparation in 300 subjects undergoing colonoscopy. [14] All subjects were ...