EGD is a widely performed procedure for the diagnosis and management of upper-gastrointestinal disorders. Intravenous sedation during EGD, however, causes hypoventilation and hypoxemia.

Because there are different types of endoscopy procedures, your endoscopy prep will change based on whether you’re having an upper GI endoscopy or a colonoscopy. Here’s what you’ll need to do.

Preparing for a endoscopy or colonoscopy procedure? Find instructions and tips here in both text and video formats.

1. Control of bleeding not separately billable. The control of bleeding is included in biopsy (and most other) endoscopic procedures, and is not separately billable unless the patient comes into the ...

GLP-1s, a popular class of weight loss and diabetes drugs, can hinder the safety of a common gastroenterology procedure, according to a study published in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

The trans-nasal endoscopy (TNE) service began at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in August after being ...

Joan Rivers entered Yorkville Endoscopy on Aug. 28 for a routine procedure. Then, complications that proved fatal arose. She died at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan on Sept. 4 from a lack of ...