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.

He says doctors are now using conscious sedation, or twilight sedation, instead of general anesthesia for certain patients undergoing TAVR, or transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Dr. Heyrich says ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...