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- Title
Impact of Sedation and Resident Teaching on Complications of Colonoscopy.
- Authors
Galandiuk, Susan; Ahmad, Pasha
- Abstract
There is controversy regarding the frequency of sedation-related complications of colonoscopies and whether these procedures are safely performed by physicians-in-training. We retrospectively reviewed the safety of 1,004 consecutive outpatient colonoscopies. No perforations occurred. No patients were hospitalized for sedation-related complications. Seventeen percent of patients had significant changes in vital signs that lasted less than 5 min. These changes were less common in patients receiving ≤3 mg midazolam intravenously without meperidine (p < 0.005). Complications were slightly more frequent in procedures performed by trainees (23%) than by gastroenterologists (12%) and by surgeons (18%) (p = 0.01). These data support the safety of colonoscopy under intravenous sedation, even when performed by trainees.
- Publication
Digestive Surgery, 1998, Vol 15, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
0253-4886
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000018588