The study of around 105,000 procedures showed that doctors found polyps larger than 9 mm or suspected colorectal tumors at a 25 percent higher rate in patients under deep sedation, primarily using Propofol, according to the release.
This report supports the findings of two previous studies by the University of Pennsylvania and the State University of New York, which tracked facilities that had an anesthesiologist administer Propofol, rather than the GI physician. In these studies, polyp detection improved up to 43 percent, according to the release.
Read the release on the colonoscopy anesthesia study.
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