Instilling bupivacaine in the abdominal cavity at the end of laparoscopic bariatric surgery eases pain for up to 2 hours ...

Nerve blocks – local anesthetic injections that block pain signals – are a valuable opioid-sparing technique for controlling ...

Veterinarians have completed the first global study that clinically documents the prevalence of hypothermia in dogs after surgery and after diagnostic tests that require anesthetic. The 83.6% of the 1 ...

In patients undergoing hip replacement surgery, using a special wound catheter to infuse local anesthetic directly into the hip joint provides significant and lasting improvements in postoperative ...

Minimizing the use of sedatives during operations could shorten hospital stays and reduce the risk of complications. Immersing patients in virtual reality could help reduce the amount of local ...

A WOMAN tragically died after being given too much local anaesthetic during hip surgery. Dr Rachel Gibson, 47, went into cardiac arrest and suffered irreversible brain damage following hip replacement ...

In Victorian times, surgery was painful, brutal – and often a death sentence. But the discovery of drugs which put the patient into blissful sleep was a step towards safer operations. From first cut ...

Just imagine that the whirring noise—from drills and saws cutting into your skull—is the gentle engine-hum of a motorboat, gliding past your canoe as you float in a tranquil lake. Those may be some of ...

There was no link between nerve damage and anaesthetic type. Third molar uneruption was a predictor for nerve injury. Retraction of lingual nerve was strongly associated with nerve damage. There was ...