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 ...

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Patients who undergo general anesthesia while receiving a specialized surgery to treat strokes have better outcomes than ...

A shortage of anesthesia clinicians threaten to hurt access to healthcare in Tennessee unless lawmakers, hospitals and ...

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: ...