In our hospital, patients treated with high-dose chemo/radiotherapy (HDC) regimens followed by bone marrow transplantation (BMT) are fitted with a central venous catheter which is usually inserted a ...
The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine has published a practice advisory on local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) called “Guidelines for the Management of Severe Local ...
A new study published in the Feb. 2012 issue of Anesthesiology found that the type of lipid emulsion used to reverse toxicity of local anesthetics may change the effectiveness of the reversal, ...
Combined Analysis of Two Multicenter, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Studies of Pamidronate Disodium for the Palliation of Bone Pain in Men With Metastatic Prostate Cancer Purpose: To compare the ...
Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...
A liposomal formulation of a local anesthetic shows promise for long-lasting pain relief with minimal toxicity, reports a research group led by Daniel S. Kohane of Harvard Medical School (Proc. Natl.
The mechanism of increased morbidity and mortality associated with virus-based gene therapy is not entirely clear, but it is possibly related to over-reacting immune response to virus vectors, ...
As measles cases continue to rise in Texas, a local health official is warning about using vitamin A to treat measles in children without the supervision of a medical professional. On Tuesday, the ...