After Bronchoscopy

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After Bronchoscopy Common practice following bronchoscopy is to monitor patients as they wake up and their sedating medicines wear off. A chest xray is often performed to assess the state of the patient's lungs and look for any damage that might have been sustained from the procedure. In addition to noting how a patient feels after bronchoscopy, the recovery team will often monitor a patients vital signs and oxygen saturation. It is customary for the physician who performed the bronchoscopy to discuss the findings of the bronchoscopy immediately after the procedure once the patient is awake and no longer sedated. Prior to leaving the hospital or facility where the bronchoscopy was performed a patient or his/her guardian should be certain they understand what symptoms or signs could develop and which might signify the presence of significant complication. Analysis of specimens obtained during bronchoscopy often takes just a few weekdays and sometimes weeks if certain microbiological or other unusual tests are to be performed.

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