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Dr. Piyush K. Desai, M.D.

Anesthesiologist

Dr. Piyush Desai is an anesthesiologist practicing in West Bloomfield, MI. Dr. Desai ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Desai also might help manage pain after an operation.
Dr. Piyush K. Desai, M.D.
  • West Bloomfield, MI
  • Accepting new patients

Colonoscopy question

For a colonoscopy - sedation with Propofol is used (called General/Deep sedation) - you are asleep, but you breathe on your own. No intubation. In conscious sedation - Versed + READ MORE
For a colonoscopy - sedation with Propofol is used (called General/Deep sedation) - you are asleep, but you breathe on your own. No intubation. In conscious sedation - Versed + Narcotic med - Fentnyl is used.