The following text summarizes information provided in the video. Procedural sedation and analgesia involve the use of one or more sedative and analgesic agents to relieve pain and anxiety and to ...

Conscious sedation helps reduce anxiety, discomfort, and pain during certain medical procedures. Doctors use medications and sometimes local anesthesia to induce relaxation. Conscious sedation is now ...

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 ...

Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are treated with many interventions (most notably endotracheal intubation and invasive mechanical ventilation) that are observed or perceived to be distressing.

Sedation, together with analgesia, amnesia and muscle paralysis, is the end result of general anesthesia, which is an induced, reversible and controlled loss of consciousness. Sedation, on its own, is ...

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 ...

Sedation dentistry uses medication to manage dental anxiety, ranging from minimal (nitrous oxide) to moderate (oral/IV sedation). It’s distinct from general anesthesia; most forms are “conscious ...

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 ...