Abstract:Objective To compare and analyze the application effects of ciprofol + remifentanil and remazolam + remifentanil in painless gastrointestinal gastroscopy in elderly overweight patients.Methods The subjects of this study, 122 elderly overweight patients for painless gastrointestinal endoscopy from October 2023 to October 2024, were randomly divided into H group and R group, each with 61 cases. At the same time, 122 elderly patients with normal body weight who planned to undergo painless gastrointestinal endoscopy during the same period were randomly divided into H1 group and R1 group, 61 cases in each group. All subjects received a slow intravenous injection of remifentanil at a dose of 0.5 μg/kg, 30 s later Group H and H1 group were administered with a slow intravenous injection of ciprofol at a dose of 0.4 mg/kg, while Group R and R1 group were given a slow intravenous injection of remazolam at a dose of 0.2 mg/kg. Anesthesia effect and perioperative indicators (examination time, induction time, etc.), and the hemodynamic parameters [mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR) and percutaneous arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2)] were compared of the four groups immediately after the establishment of electrocardiogram monitoring (T0), upon completion of anesthesia induction (T1), when gastroscopy passed through the throat (T2), when enteroscopy passed through the hepatic flexure (T3), and immediately after completion of surgery (T4), as well as adverse reactions were compared of the four groups.Results Excellent anesthesia rate: group H and H1 group were higher than group R (96.72%, 98.36% vs. 86.89%,P < 0.05). Induction time: no difference was found of the four groups (P > 0.05). Examination time: group H and group R were significantly longer than that in group H1 and group R1 (P < 0.05), but there was no significant difference between group H and group R, and between group H1 and group R1 (P > 0.05). The time of awakening and moving out of postanesthesia care unit (PACU): group H, group R, group H1 and group R1 gradually decreased, and the differences between each two groups were statistically significant (P < 0.05). There were statistically significant differences in MAP and HR of the four groups, time and interaction effects (P < 0.05). The difference of SpO2 of the four groups was statistically significant (P < 0.05), and the difference of time and interaction effect was not statistically significant (P > 0.05). Incidence of injection pain: group H and group H1 were lower than group R and group R1 (P < 0.05). Incidence of other adverse reactions: no significant difference of four groups (P > 0.05).Conclusion During painless gastrointestinal endoscopy of elderly overweight patients the application of ciprofol + remifentanil can achieve better anesthetic effect and lower incidence of injection pain as compared with remazolam + remifentanil. The anesthetic effect of the two anesthesia regimens is similar in elderly normal weight patients, but the elderly normal weight patients have a faster recovery from anesthesia than the elderly overweight patients.