Anesthesia Crisis During Endoscopy

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]So, when you're insufflating, so as we're passing that endoscope through the esophagus, it it obviously it's it don't want to distend or you're putting air there to to blow up the the the tube, so to speak, so you can pass and see. And the same thing when you're in the stomach, so you're you're distending that. So, it's a you know, it's it's certainly all all hands on deck when you're doing those things as far as paying attention. So, you got to have somebody running your anesthesia who's really paying attention to what's happening as you're doing that, cuz you've got to You've got to get that air out. You want to get it out quickly, so you you don't cause an anesthetic crisis.

[00:00:36]Yeah. And as soon as he released the air, his things changed rapidly as fast as they developed, too. So, that was really neat to see.