What is the difference between painless gastroscopy and ordinary gastroscopy?

Gastroscopy is the best and most accurate way to understand the health of the patient's stomach. However, now there are two types of gastroscopy: painless gastroscopy and ordinary gastroscopy. Painless gastroscopy allows patients to undergo the operation in a painless, safe and deep sleeping state, while ordinary gastroscopy will make patients feel nauseous and vomit.

Ordinary gastroscopy

Since most patients experience nausea and vomiting during examinations, and are often psychologically tense, anxious, and fearful, many patients tend to refuse examinations, which delays diagnosis and treatment. With the development of medical technology and the improvement of people's living standards, allowing patients to undergo gastroscopy examination and treatment in a safe and painless state has become a pursuit of the medical community. Painless gastroscopy was born under this requirement.

Painless gastroscopy

It is based on ordinary gastroscopy examination, combined with intravenous injection of drugs such as propofol, fentanyl and lidocaine. Because intravenous injection of fentanyl and propofol has sedative and analgesic effects, and they have a rapid onset of action, quick recovery, short half-life, strong controllability, and no accumulation in the body, the patient will quickly enter a snoring state during the gastroscopy, and the cricopharyngeal muscle will be relatively relaxed, which will facilitate the advancement of the gastroscope.

Examination and treatment are carried out simultaneously

1. Examination: Under gastroscopy, pathological cell examination can be performed on the lesion tissue to clarify the nature of the lesion. This is the "gold standard" for diagnosing various chronic gastritis, gastric ulcers, esophageal cancer, and gastric cancer.

2. Treatment: Various treatments can be performed under gastroscopy, including high-frequency electroresection of gastric polyps; endoscopic hemostasis by spraying, injection, and titanium clips; endoscopic resection of microgastric cancer; endoscopic microwave therapy, etc.

Painless gastroenteroscopy is known as the "guardian of the digestive tract". Gastrointestinal polyps and early malignant tumors can be directly removed under the endoscope, completely curing them and avoiding the pain of surgery. At the same time, it also saves patients a lot of medical expenses.