Conscious sedation is something you might want to discuss with your doctor or dentist if you’re nervous about an upcoming procedure. It's less intense than general anesthesia since you're ...

Since sedation is a continuum, a patient undergoing conscious sedation may become deeply sedated, and impaired airway reflexes and hypotension may develop.This means that if a clinician intends to ...

“Moderate sedation with medications like fentanyl and versed is universally used for colonoscopies. At my endoscopy center in Fullerton, we perform about 12,000 procedures a year, ...

There was wide variation in the use of conscious sedation, with 26% of hospitals performing more than 80% of TAVR procedures with conscious sedation and 13% using general anesthesia only. In the final ...

Among more than 120,000 patients who had TAVR at more than 500 US sites between January 2016 and March 2019, the use of conscious sedation increased from 33% to 64% of procedures, with wide ...

So you’re about to go in for an outpatient procedure and you’re given a “consent” form to sign regarding the method of sedation to be used for your procedure. Sounds easy enough, however ...

Propofol is one of the most used drugs for general anesthesia, but the findings of a new study suggest that the medication may also be beneficial for conscious sedation. Researchers from the U.K.

Conscious sedation in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement is safe and, not surprisingly, leads to shorter ICU and overall hospital stays, a new study suggests. Importantly, ...

Conscious sedation means you remain awake during the procedure unlike general anesthesia which puts you to sleep. You will receive medications for both pain and relaxation. We administer these ...

D9243--Intravenous moderate (conscious) sedation/analgesia - each subsequent 15-minute increment These codes are reported in 15-minute increments. The anesthesia time begins when the doctor ...

Some hospital systems may argue that it is reasonable to offer moderate-sedation procedural abortions only in an operating room because they often presume it is safer than an out-patient procedure.