General endotracheal anesthesia may be preferred over sedation with propofol in patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography who are considered at high risk for adverse events from sedation, according to investigators from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
“In this first prospective randomized trial comparing general endotracheal anesthesia with monitored anesthesia care [MAC] during ERCP, we found that general anesthesia was associated with a