Many patients feel some fear against upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.
With modern instruments, this examination is not difficult, and usually only a slight pharyngeal anesthesia is needed. The difficult part of the examination takes only one minute, and the whole examination is over in a few minutes. Videotowers used in Gastroscopy There are very few major contraindications and the safety of the examination is remarkedly high. During the 70 s and the 80 s fiberoptic instruments were used. During the 90 s videoendoscopes have replaced most of the old fiberoptic instruments.