Nurses taught patients two breathing techniques In A Nutshell British nurses taught 241 patients two simple breathing ...

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 ...

A high proportion of time spent in medication-induced deep sedation in the ICU was associated with an increased risk of loss of independent living in an observational study. About a third of that ...

Sedation in the context of palliative medicine is the monitored use of medications to induce varying degrees of unconsciousness to bring about a state of decreased or absent awareness (i.e.

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 ...

A new study has shown that mindfulness helps patients to relax during an endoscopy, allowing doctors to carry out detailed ...

A proposal in Olympia would elevate industry regulations and guidelines to state law when it comes to all deep sedation procedures in dental offices.

The thought of your pet undergoing sedation or anesthesia can be stressful, but these techniques can be an important step in ...

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 ...

A proposal in Olympia would elevate industry regulations and guidelines to state law when it comes to all deep sedation ...