Feasibility of Non-Anesthesiologist-Administered Propofol Sedation for Emergency Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography

Table 5

Summary of reports in the literature on ERCP with propofol sedation.

Author	Year	Sedation	Administrator	Number of cases	Mean age	Adverse event (%)	Hypoxia <90% (%)	Hypotension; SBP <90 mmHg (%)	Bradycardia; HR <50/min; (%)
Wehrmann et al. [8]	1999	Propofol	Physician	99	63.6 ± 23.3	NA	11 (11.1)	7 (7.1)	5 (5.1)
Krugliak et al. [9]	2000	Propofol	Anesthesiologist	15	56.8 ± 12.5	0	0	0	NA
Jung et al. [10]	2000	Propofol	Anesthesiologist	39	62	NA	2 (5.1)	1 (2.6)	NA
Vargo et al. [11]	2002	Propofol	Physician	38	52.9 ± 2.4	20 (52.6)	14 (36.8)	6 (15.8)	0
Chen et al. [12]	2005	Propofol	NA	35	53.89 ± 17.12	15 (42.9)	2 (5.7)	7 (20.0)	0
Riphaus et al. [13]	2005	Propofol	Physician	75	83.7 ± 7.8	NA	8 (10.7)	6 (8.0)	3 (4.0)
Kongkam et al. [14]	2008	Propofol	ACLS trained physician, gastroenterologist	67	52.31	NA	15 (22.3)	6 (9.0)	2 (3.0)
Angsuwatcharakon et al. [15]	2012	Balanced-propofol	Endoscopic nurse	103	59.56 ± 13.65	NA	NA	14 (13.6)	1 (1.0)
Khan et al. [16]	2014	Propofol	BLS and ACLS trained physician, gastroenterologist	156	54.39 ± 17.0	2 (1.3)	2 (1.3)	0	0
Present study	2014	Propofol	Endoscopist	182	75.4 ± 10.3	59 (38.8)	31 (20.4)	26 (17.1)	2 (1.3)

ERCP: endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
ACLS: advanced cardiac life support.
BLS: basic life support.
NA: not available.