“Do you get general anesthesia during a liver biopsy?”
I will have a liver biopsy. Do you get general anesthesia during a liver biopsy?
4 Answers
You will receive a local anesthetic at the biopsy site where the biopsy needle will be inserted. Sometimes, general anesthesia depending on the type of lesion. Normally they don’t receive sedation. If there is a tumor inside the chest or the belly, they will use general anesthesia.
Usually only local anesthesia is used for a liver biopsy, in the skin area right over where they are working.
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