An simple technique using local anesthetic mixed with magnetized "ferrofluids" may provide a new approach to preventing a rare but serious complication of spinal anesthesia. An simple technique using ...

October 15, 2012 (Washington, DC) — For elderly patients undergoing surgery for hip fracture, complication rates and length of hospital stay are similar whether they receive general or spinal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Spinal and general anesthesia were associated with high rates of successful same-day discharge TJA. Patients who ...

Background: Paralysis of abducens nerve is a very rare complication of lumbar puncture, which is a common procedure most often used for diagnostic and anesthetic purposes. Case Report: A 38-year-old ...

Women seeking pain relief during childbirth should be comforted to know that epidural and spinal anesthesia are extremely safe, suggests a study of more than 80,000 women that reviewed anesthesia ...

Obesity Ups Complications After Total Knee Arthroplasty For patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty, use of general anesthesia is associated with a significant increase in complications compared ...

Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with bupivacaine, patients who had ropivacaine had superior ambulation time and distance, quicker ...

Anaesthesia is one of the most significant innovations in modern medicine. It allows patients to undergo surgery and other medical procedures without experiencing the trauma of pain. According to a ...

THE relief of pain during childbirth has been since time immemorial a subject of discussion and controversy. At first the differences of opinion were based on biblical interpretations. Snow's use of ...

Serious complications due to anesthesia during childbirth are very rare, occurring in one out of every 3,000 deliveries, according to study published in Anesthesiology. The study used data from the ...