Diagnostic colonoscopy requires a stay of a few hours at our hospital as it is performed under short, intravenous anaesthesia with the assistance of an anaesthesiologist.
At all EMC hospitals, colonoscopies are performed only under intravenous anaesthesia, administered by an anaesthesiologist with full medical coverage for the patient.
Surgical colonoscopies may be performed in either the outpatient or hospital environments, depending on the character of the procedure and the patient’s condition.
Capsule endoscopy is a non-invasive examination method involving imaging of the gastrointestinal tract, particularly of the small intestine.
It enables imaging of those areas of the gastrointestinal tract in which the conventional methods of diagnostic imaging, both radiological and endoscopic, fail.
| Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) |
ERCP allows for procedures within the bile ducts and the pancreatic duct, including:
- removal of stones from the bile ducts and the pancreatic duct
- dilatation of neoplastic and non-neoplastic stenoses
- prosthesing of the bile and pancreatic ducts with PTFE and self-expanding prostheses
| Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) |
This examination involves insertion of a special endoscope into the oesophagus, the stomach, the duodenum or the large intestine, with a very small but accurate sonographic head (OLYMPUS) on its end. In this way, not only does the examining physician have the ability to view changes (as in classical endoscopy) but he can also check their internal structure in a sonographic image. Because EUS is a highly-specialist procedure, prior consultation at the hospital is required to determine and confirm indications for the examination.