The technique puts patients in a 'sleepy' state - but doesn't render them unconscious TWILIGHT sedation is a medical term you may have heard of, but probably know little about. Here’s the lowdown on ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has released updated guidelines on the use of sedation and ...

Children born preterm who receive sedation or anesthesia for procedures outside of the operating room are almost twice as likely to experience adverse events compared with those born at term, and ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Two new randomized studies have provided reassurance on the safety of general anesthesia for patients undergoing endovascular therapy for acute stroke. The studies — GOLIATH ...

Conscious sedation -- a type of anesthesia in which patients remain awake but are sleepy and pain-free -- is a safe and viable option to general anesthesia for people undergoing a minimally invasive ...

Failed sedation for routine gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is extremely rare, warranting a return to endoscopist-directed sedation, rather than costly anesthesia-assisted sedation, as the default ...

A large, retrospective study indicates that in patients with acute ischemic stroke, endovascular interventions performed under conscious sedation carry a lower risk of poor neurological outcome and ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

A single colonoscopy can generate more than one bill: a procedure claim, a sedation claim, and sometimes a separate anesthesia claim, plus a facility claim when the case is done at an ASC.