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 ...

This twilight sedation is not for everyone. Patients must have clear airways and morbidly obese patients would not be good candidates. An anesthesiologist would do a risk assessment on the patient and ...

New twilight sedation for advanced heart valve disease patients undergoing the minimally invasive TAVR, or transcatheter aortic valve replacement, cuts hospital stay, cost, and additional medications.

With the advent of plastic-surgery TV shows, patients are more informed than ever—perhaps too informed?—about what they’ll look like after their procedures as well as what the procedures themselves ...

Q: Which doctor administers local anesthesia? A: The doctor performing the surgery, either dentists, ophthalmologists or another surgeon will administer the local anesthetic. A: Twilight sedation is ...

In early January, best-selling author Olivia Goldsmith died from complications of anesthesia during plastic surgery, according to her literary agent. The 54-year-old Goldsmith, who wrote "First Wives ...

TWILIGHT sedation is a medical term you may have heard of, but probably know little about. Here’s the lowdown on the method, what it feels like when you’re under the anaesthetic and when it’s used.

Beneath green surgical sheets and a tangle of tubes, a healthy young ewe is undergoing a heart-lung bypass procedure to help answer one of several urgent questions about a pillar of modern medicine: ...