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.

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 ...

There’s something oddly fascinating about what happens when people are almost asleep but not quite. Twilight anesthesia, that hazy middle ground where you’re relaxed, loopy, and completely unfiltered, ...

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 ...