Currently, the most common indication for a Hartmann procedure is complicated diverticulitis (see the images below). Diverticula are small (0.5-1 cm in diameter) outpouchings of the colon that occur at the sites of vascular penetration between the single mesenteric taenia and one of the antimesenteric taeniae.
These 10 animal facts will amaze you. Propofol sedation is sedation for medical procedures accomplished with the use of propofol, a hypnotic agent used to induce anesthesia and manage patients on mechanical ventilators.ome facilities prefer to use an anesthesiologist or nurse-anesthetist for propofol sedation, as these care providers have special training in the administration of anesthesia and the potential complications.
Some gastroenterologists say sedation using the powerful sedative propofol is unnecessary for colonoscopies. (Richard Vogel / Associated Press). Paul Thornton. The thought of undergoing a colonoscopy while not completely unconscious might give you shivers. And it shouldn't, say several doctors who perform the procedure.ajen Mathews of Fullerton, also a gastroenterologist, outlines the propofol-free protocol: Moderate sedation with medications like fentanyl and versed is universally used for colonoscopies. At my endoscopy center in Fullerton, we perform about 12,000 procedures a year, and 95% of them are done under moderate sedation.