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2. Colonoscopy - Wikipedia

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   Routine use of colonoscopy screening varies globally. In the US, colonoscopy is a commonly recommended and widely utilized screening method for colorectal cancer, often beginning at age 45 or 50, depending on risk factors and guidelines from organizations like the American Cancer Society. [9] However, screening practices differ worldwide.

3. Twilight anesthesia - Wikipedia

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   Along with the factors determined, different types of anesthesia medications are used depending on the medical procedure being done. While the patient is under conscious sedation by anesthesia, depending on the type and dose administered, they are in a state that is called by some, a "twilight" state. [citation needed]

4. 'There is confusion': Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mass. delays ...

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   Blue Cross processes claims for about 74,000 colonoscopy patients yearly in Massachusetts and a majority are done under full sedation. A colonoscopy screens for colorectal cancer, the second ...

5. Anesthesia awareness - Wikipedia

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   Many patients undergoing monitored anesthesia may go through profound amnesia, depending on the amount of anesthetic used. [21] Some patients undergo sedation for smaller procedures such as biopsies and colonoscopies and are told they will be asleep, although in fact they are getting a sedation that may allow some level of awareness as opposed ...

6. How to make your colonoscopy prep more effective and less ...

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   However, the prep for a colonoscopy is another story. You may need to drink a lot of fluids, spend quite a bit of time in the bathroom and temporarily change your diet.

7. Fospropofol - Wikipedia

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   Fospropofol (INN [3]), often used as the disodium salt (trade name Lusedra [4]) is an intravenous sedative-hypnotic agent. It is currently approved for use in sedation of adult patients undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic procedures such as endoscopy .

8. Melissa Gilbert, 58, Gets Brutally Honest About Colonoscopy ...

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   Melissa Gilbert shared her colonoscopy prep detailing past IBS struggles with the solution. She shared how she approaches the procedure to avoid distress. Melissa Gilbert, 58, Gets Brutally Honest ...

9. Total intravenous anaesthesia - Wikipedia

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   TIVA is used to induce general anesthesia while avoiding the disadvantages of volatile anesthesia (and traditional inhalation agents). [9] Intravenous anesthetic agents are titrated at safe doses to maintain stage III surgical anesthesia (unconsciousness, amnesia, immobility, and absence of response to noxious stimulation). [10]