Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...

The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists offers a free, downloadable brochure for patients which provides answers to questions about conscious sedation. What is conscious sedation? When is ...

For many people, visiting the dentist can bring feelings of fear and anxiety. Some even postpone necessary treatments because ...

General anesthesia leads to better functional outcomes than conscious sedation in stroke patients with large vessel occlusion ...

• Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) done under moderate sedation (MS) may have lower rate of complications especially pneumothorax as compared to what is quoted in literature when procedure ...

There are many advantages to using local anesthesia with IV sedation during minimally invasive spinal procedures. Agnes P. Green, MD, a board certified anesthesiologist at The Bonati Spine Institute ...

CMS began looking to separate moderate sedation services from procedure codes in all specialties back in 2014, including gastrointestinal endoscopy, according to an AGA report. The three major GI ...

Dental Organization for Conscious Sedation (DOCS) Education has launched a new regulatory website to help health professionals navigate the patchwork of state rules governing oral sedation. The site ...

June 1, 2009 (Chicago, Illinois) — Deep sedation allows for better visualization of the colon and inspection of polyps during colonoscopy and has a significantly higher diagnostic yield than moderate ...

If you haven’t read part one of this two-part article, I suggest reading it now to glean the full scope of its message as it applies to part two. Comfort for the patient during dental procedures is ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Given a choice, most doctors and nurses who perform colonoscopy would choose to be fully anesthetized when undergoing the procedure themselves - unless they had to pay full ...