Safety in pediatric sedation relies on strict guidelines and monitoring, so let's learn how providers utilize pharmacological ...

Conscious sedation helps reduce anxiety, discomfort, and pain during certain medical procedures. Doctors use medications and sometimes local anesthesia to induce relaxation. Conscious sedation is now ...

Recent news stories relating to the "end of life" have brought public attention to palliative sedation (PS), a therapeutic procedure about which unfortunately little is known in the healthcare world ...

Lying there wide-awake as the doctor removed the colonoscopy tube from my hinder, I recalled that time in the 1980s when I had four impacted wisdom teeth gouged from my jaw while under nothing but a ...

Inhaled isoflurane sedation was on par with IV midazolam for children age 3 to 17 years in the ICU on mechanical ventilation in a randomized trial. Isoflurane also reduced time to extubation and ...

'The Pioneer Woman' compared the dental procedure to her 'one natural childbirth' Tyler Essary/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Ree Drummond is sharing details about her recent dental procedure and how ...

Toward the end, the pain had practically driven Elizabeth Martin mad. By then, the cancer had spread everywhere, from her colon to her spine, her liver, her adrenal glands and one of her lungs.

Medically induced comas differ from sedation in the level of unconsciousness, according to a release issued by the American Society of Anesthesiologists. According to the ASA, a medically induced coma ...

PHOENIX — Gastroenterologists want more training in how to safely deliver moderate sedation during endoscopic procedures, and a majority would be interested in providing physician-directed propofol ...