The first study of oral sedation for cataract surgery in an office setting found it to be as safe as intravenous anesthesia ...

AMSTERDAM — Many urologic procedures can be safely performed with the use of conscious sedation rather than general anesthesia, and both clinicians and their patients say they prefer the lighter touch ...

Hundreds of patients successfully received cataract surgery in a doctor's office after taking sedative pills, as opposed to ...

The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have updated their sedation guidelines for the first time in three years. The new guidelines call for two ...

Conscious sedation for spine procedures in the ambulatory setting is associated with a low rate of adverse events comparable to local anesthesia without conscious sedation, according to a Doctor’s ...

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 ...

Every year, more than 13 million babies are born prematurely worldwide, and up to one-third of them require surgical repair ...

Conscious sedation for spine procedures in the ambulatory setting is associated with a low rate of adverse events comparable to local anesthesia without conscious sedation, according to a Doctor’s ...