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

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 ...

The usual charge for EGD, which includes anesthesia, is $9,391, while TNE would be $3,548. For 100 procedures, the savings to the health care system would be $584,300.

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 ...

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.

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