I want to be a gastroscope, but I am afraid of intubation. Is there a gastroscope without intubation in China now? I need it urgently. Please talk about all walks of life.

Generally speaking, gastroscopy requires intubation to the upper part of esophagus-stomach-duodenum. There is usually some discomfort inside, so there is a painless gastroscope, which is generally called a painless gastroscope. Just ask the anesthesiology department to help anesthesia.

There is another way to enter without intubation, which is capsule endoscope, that is, swallowing a miniature camera. It can automatically take pictures of your interior from esophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestine, and transmit them to an image recorder, so that doctors can see the inner wall of your entire digestive tract. Compared with the original gastroscope, which is only suitable for the upper digestive tract, colonoscopy is only suitable for the rectum and colon, and only a small part of the longest small intestine in the digestive tract can be seen routinely. Although there is a special colonoscopy, the operation is complicated, and quite a few patients can't complete the colonoscopy. This capsule gastroscope can see many parts.

But at the same time, capsule gastroscope has one of the most unfavorable places, that is, it cannot be biopsied, which is a very important aspect of gastroscope and the most criticized place of capsule gastroscope. In addition, the price is very expensive, and some patients with pacemakers and implantable cardioversion/defibrillation devices are not suitable for this examination.

So I think, in general, capsule gastroscope can only be an auxiliary means, and it can't replace traditional gastroscope.