Table 1.
A Simplified Presentation of All 163 Adverse Events Associated with 73,029 Procedures Endoscopic Procedures
| Adverse event | Frequency |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | S | Not available | Total | |
| 1. Bleed | 21 | 18 | 12 | 51 |
| 2. Cardiorespiratory arrest | 16 | 4 | 1 | 21 |
| 3. Postprocedural pain | 10 | 6 | 4 | 20 |
| 4. Pancreatitis | 16 | 1 | 0 | 17 |
| 5. Arrhythmias | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 6. Febrile reaction | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 7. Non-cardiac chest pain | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 8. Perforation | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 9. Hypoxia | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 10. Iatrogenic | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 11. Hemodynamic | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 12. Myocardial infarction | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 13. Miscellaneous | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 14. Obstruction | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 15. Tooth break | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 16. Anaphylaxis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17. Aspiration pneumonia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18. Cognitive dysfunction | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 19. Dyspnoea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 20. GI obstruction | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21. Seizures | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 22. Sore throat | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 23. Stricture | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 24. Stridor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 25. Syncope | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 97 | 42 | 24 | 163 |
A, anesthesia provider administered sedation; S, gastrointestinal endoscopist directed sedation; GI, gastrointestinal.