If they use general anesthesia, doctors insert a breathing tube through the person’s mouth. This process is known as intubation. The type of nose surgery a person is having dictates the location ...

Nov. 30 (UPI) --Patients who receive high levels of oxygen during surgery may have a greater risk of subsequent kidney, heart and lung injury, according to a large U.S. study published Wednesday ...

Learn what to expect during surgery, including types of anesthesia, who's on the surgical team, infection control procedures, and waking up in the recovery room.

People taking Ozempic, Wegovy, or other GLP-1 antagonists should stop taking the medications before surgery, according to new recommendation from the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

“Typically, the breathing tube can come out very soon, like 2 to 3 hours after bypass surgery,” Pawale says. “Sometimes it can come out at the end of the operation, in the OR.” ...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been approved for $7 million in research funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study the effect of breathing tube size on ...

The parents of a 21-month-old South Carolina boy are breathing a sigh of relief after a rare tumor was successfully removed from their son during a surgery that lasted over eight hours.