A growing number of businesses, including a new one in South Florida, offer tattoos over entire body parts like a back or a leg, in one sitting of roughly eight hours. A client doesn't feel pain, but ...

Dr. Leena Mathew, an anesthesiologist and associate professor of anesthesiology at the Columbia University Medical Center, explains some the misconceptions patients have about sedation during surgery.

Background: Children who need MR scanning frequently need sedation in order to remain still for the procedure. This poses a number of potential problems including the organizational difficulties ...

Snoring while under conscious sedation during colonoscopy is a strong predictor of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a recent study by Ala Sharara et al. “Although snoring is commonly ...