For folks who've avoided the dentist for a long time, sedation can sometimes allow the dentist to take care of more work in ...

I’m so afraid of the dentist that I haven’t been in a long time.”When I introduce intravenous sedation to people who say this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Practice guidelines for sedation and analgesia may vary in different regions of the world. The American Society of Anesthesiologists has developed such guidelines for use by physicians who are not ...

The woman had joked about what her sleep-talking husband might reveal after sedation. Then the anesthesiologist stepped in, ...

A patient-focused dentist in Mississauga understands that sedation exists to remove that barrier, not just to manage ...

In the contentious debate over whether people have a right to die, the staunchest opponents on either side could usually agree on one point — that the terminally ill ought to be made as comfortable as ...