Painless gastroenteroscopy generally takes about fifteen minutes to half an hour, and if endoscopic treatment is needed, the time will be extended accordingly, depending on various operations, which may take an hour or even longer.
Before doing painless gastroenteroscopy, intravenous anesthesia is needed, and the operation can only be carried out after the examined person is completely asleep and has no feeling, the intravenous anesthesia needs a certain time, and the patient may not be awake after the operation is finished, and it takes some time to wait for him to be awake, and the whole process generally takes about fifteen minutes to half an hour.
The complexity of the patient’s lesions, bowel preparation, the presence of adhesions, the presence of obvious sigmoid colon redundancy, etc. will affect the examination time, if the patient’s gastrointestinal mucosa has lesions, generally need to take a biopsy, and the more parts taken, the more time spent, endoscopic biopsy or treatment will make the examination time prolonged, and it may take an hour or even more time.
If the patient’s gastroenteroscopy results suggest a problem, he or she should go to the hospital in time to have the cause clarified and then be given standardized treatment.