For some surgeries, spinal anesthesia has been increasingly used instead of general anesthesia as a method to provide more comfort to patients and cut down on painkiller use. But research among hip ...

The field of cutaneous analgesia and spinal anaesthesia has evolved considerably, underpinning advances in pain management for surgical and diagnostic procedures. Cutaneous analgesia focuses on ...

Heitor Medeiros, MD, and A. Sassan Sabouri, MD, of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, are the lead and corresponding authors, respectively ...

The occurrence of hypotension during spinal anaesthesia in cesarean delivery presents a significant challenge in obstetric anaesthesia. Ondansetron, a 5‐HT3 receptor antagonist traditionally used to ...

Pain during the first 24 hours after hip fracture repair surgery was higher following spinal anesthesia than general anesthesia, according to a study of 1600 patients published in Annals of Internal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published results showed use of spinal anesthesia during hip fracture surgery led to more pain in the first 24 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of spinal anesthesia during total hip arthroplasty may reduce postoperative pain scores and oral morphine ...

Today, deliveries via cesarean sections, or c-sections, have become quite common globally. Sometimes, c-sections are a medical necessity when normal deliveries become risky either for the mother or ...

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"I saw everything," says 74-year-old Harry Stackhouse from Illinois, who was awake during his recent kidney transplant. He felt no pain as he chatted with doctors, examined the donor organ, and ...

Spinal anesthesia is not safer or more effective than general anesthesia in patients who undergo surgery for hip fractures, according to a major study. The finding, which challenges the accepted view, ...

Anesthesiologists must always wear face masks when material is injected into the epidural or spinal space, regardless of location, according to a post in Anesthesiology by J. Lance Lichtor, MD, ...