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By Jeffrey Martin


An endoscopic operation is conducted when a patient is in a sleepy state. To achieve the state, a drug must be injected into the body by a medical doctor to ensure that the operating surgeon doing the gastrointestinal endoscopy has an easy time. In most cases, endoscopic anesthesia is injected to make a patient comfortable during the operation.

The medicine is supposed to sedate a patient to ensure that the procedure is not painful. Endoscopic procedures can be administered without too much sedative medication. Some individuals may make a request to the doctor to use more sedative medication but it would cost a higher amount of money.

A number of gastrointestinal operation procedures done have resulted to complications. As a way of reducing complications medical practitioners in cooperation with anesthesiologists have been looking for ways of sedating the body adequately to enhance swift procedures. The anesthetic medications are administered to make the operation procedures efficient and to completely take away all events that arise during surgery. Some events are too horrific but to reduce haunting, a patient must be completely sedated.

The sedation offered during an endoscopy differs with the most common being; general, deep, moderate and minimal. Decades ago doctors were conducting the surgery without using any form of sedation. When the doctor has administered mild sedation, patients can still have his cardiovascular and system working, and he can give a response to any verbal or tactile provocation.

Body cells are killed for a while making it hard to arouse them but with frequent pain stimulation, the patient may give some response. When these sedatives are offered in a deep way, the ability to breathe may be altered and this would require the doctors to use an air support system. On the other hand, general anesthesia is effective but it has an impact on the cardiovascular functions. A patient cannot get aroused even when painful stimulations are used.

When patients are taking endoscopy procedures, the doctor should make sure that they use the right dosage of the sedation medicine, as under dose causes pain while an over dose is fatal at time. The surgeon assistants or the person preparing sedation drug should be equipped with pharmacological knowledge. This ensures the right drug mix ration. The drug is a mixture of different elements as patients respond differently to the drug.

Before injecting the drug to aid in successful endoscopic operations, the doctor must provide a patient with honest information about the drug. The information should entail the advantages of using the drug, disadvantages, risks and possible side effects. The information is to help the patient to make a choice that is informed. The amount of anesthesia that the doctor administers must be determined by a patient depending on the level of sedation that he wants to achieve when the endoscopy is ongoing.

Finally, it is advisable that patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy should avoid liquid and solid food materials hours before the process so as to clear the system. A clear system guarantees a successful procedure and permanent solution to your tract illness.




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