Mercy Kids now offers upper endoscopy procedures with no sedation. Sedation-free transnasal endoscopy is available for patients ages 5 and older and uses a narrow, flexible scope inserted through the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Dr. Amana N. Nasir is a pediatric gastroenterologist with Mercy Children's Hospital. It might take years to accumulate 60,000 ...

An endoscopy is a procedure in which your doctor uses specialized instruments to view and operate on the internal organs and vessels of your body. An endoscopy allows surgeons to see problems within ...

For many young patients and their parents, the most intimidating part of an upper endoscopy isn't the procedure, it's the anesthesia. To address this concern, Mercy Kids recently launched ...