Originally Posted by
doober
A slight correction,
Scubatooth, as you made a typo: you meant to say "remember" not "recommend."
You see, Ron, when having a colonoscopy you are given medications to take away your memory and to dull the discomfort from the expansion of the colon using CO2, as Scubatooth stated. A general anesthetic is NOT used for a colonoscopy. If your doctor told you he was giving you an anesthetic (and sadly many doctors do tell their patients this), he was lying to you.
Then again, you seem to believe many things that are not true.
That's what i meant to say. Conscious sedation is pretty much the standard for diagnostic procedures; the cocktail used depends on the practitioner but ketamine, versed/midazolam. , diprovan/propofol and mixes of those are common. Full General anesthetic where the patient is intubated is normally only used in more invasive procedures and will take longer then what CS lasts. Then if the procedure requires the patient to not move at all then paralytics are used.
Most doctors dont tell there patients or explain the differences because the differences would go over there heads resulting in that glazed over stupefied look that many here have seen at the airport alot.