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 ...

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 ...

Taylored Dental Care Wibsey has announced the continued availability of consultations for patients who experience dental ...

A high proportion of time spent in medication-induced deep sedation in the ICU was associated with an increased risk of loss of independent living in an observational study. About a third of that ...

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.

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 ...

I’m one of an elite group of American patients. Only about one percent of us undergo colonoscopy without sedation. The big secret: it doesn’t have to be painful. And it’s probably safer than with ...

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 ...