Criticism of NAAP by anesthesiologists who equated sedation using propofol with general anesthesia and its risks, and held that all deep sedation should be considered as potential anesthesia, and therefore should only be done by anesthesiologists, has also been forcefully quashed. Recently, the death of the singer Michael Jackson led to an attempt to revive the debate, but it is now clear that the accident in this case had nothing to do with NAAP as an endoscopic sedation technique.
Esa contundencia también anuló las críticas a la NAAP realizadas por anestesiólogos que equiparaban la sedación profunda alcanzada con el propofol con la anestesia general y sus riesgos, y sostenían que toda sedación profunda se debería considerar un potencial acto anestésico y por tanto solo debería ser realizado por anestesiólogos.