This article was written by Tamara Wagner, BS, CPC, Vice President of Coding and Diana Hilliard, JD, Manager Managed Care Contracts for National Medical Billing Services. The AMA recently issued an ...

Healthcare providers use conscious sedation (also called procedural or moderate sedation) to effectively manage medication dosing and allow the patient to maintain independent breathing and ...

There are many advantages to using local anesthesia with IV sedation during minimally invasive spinal procedures. Agnes P. Green, MD, a board certified anesthesiologist at The Bonati Spine Institute ...

AMSTERDAM — Many urologic procedures can be safely performed with the use of conscious sedation rather than general anesthesia, and both clinicians and their patients say they prefer the lighter touch ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Conscious sedation was not superior to general anesthesia for functional recovery in patients undergoing ...

Conscious sedation during TAVR is increasingly common in the United States and is linked to better outcomes than procedures using general anesthesia and endotracheal intubation, but there is still ...

Dr. Christopher Hughes, DMD, is now licensed by the state of Illinois to perform conscious and intravenous sedation at his private dental office in Logan Professional Park, located on Rt. 13, in ...

It's absolutely the best way to do it. I had 2 wisdom teeth extracted under IV sedation and it took all of 20 minutes. It took a few hours to get completely back to normal. Yesterday, I had a root ...