Anesthesia adds risk and cost to the screening procedure, research shows, raising fresh questions about how providers weigh patient satisfaction against outcomes and profit. New findings on risks ...

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 ...

Health insurers would be required to cover the costs of anesthesiology services for a patient undergoing a colonoscopy when a physician deems such pain-killing measures as medically necessary, under a ...

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Though colonoscopy is often performed with anesthesia, a recent study published in the journal Gastroenterology has found sedation increases risk of complications. Here are five insights into the ...

Earlier this week the federal government clarified that insurers can't charge people for anesthesia administered during a free colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer. That's welcome news for ...

Nov. 13, 2002 — Patient-controlled sedation (PCS) during colonoscopy was as effective and significantly safer than standard intravenous sedation determined by the endoscopist, according to the results ...

This important procedure doesn’t have to feel awkward or embarrassing. Here’s what to know to make it easier.

Sedation is commonly used for routine colonoscopies, but is it always necessary and does it always need to be administered by an anesthesiologist? Perhaps not, argue two anesthesiologists. Joshua W.

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband, who is 71, has been having some short-term memory problems over the past two years. We recently saw his primary doctor, who asked him some questions and had him do a few ...