• Do you get sedation for a bronchoscopy?

I will have a bronchoscopy. Do you get sedation for a bronchoscopy?

4 Answers

  • Pulmonologist
  • Spring Hill, FL

YES IT IS CALLED CONSCIOUS SEDATION JUST LIKE U R COLONOSCOPY

  • Pulmonologist
  • Little Rock, AR

It is called moderate sedation. Which means you will be sedated/sleepy, but awake. So you will be able to go home an hour or so after the procedure as long as there are no complications

  • Anesthesiologist
  • Porterville, CA

Yes. Bronchoscope usually is done with IV sedation.

  • Surgeon
  • Ansonia, CT

Yes.

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