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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...