American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine guidelines highlight SSI prevention in regional anesthesia and ...

Nyborg had developed a spinal epidural abscess, according to Dr. Andrew Chan, a neurosurgical spine surgeon and director of ...

He spent the next few years researching and developing the procedure. "The way the surgery works is [a spinal cord stimulator ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced a Lake Charles doctor and his wife agreed to pay $450,000 for the alleged improper ...

When Maria Waters, a 58-year-old GP from Richmond, in Surrey, went for her hospital outpatient appointment last summer, she ...

It takes less time, but it isn’t as widely used. First, you’ll get anesthesia so you sleep through the procedure. Once you’re under, a surgeon will make an incision in your belly.

Epidurals to ease labor weren’t really used in the delivery room until the 1940s; during the next couple of decades, the procedure gradually began to supplant other methods used to ease birthing pains ...

Study selection RCTs that enrolled patients with chronic non-cancer spine pain, randomised to receive a commonly used interventional procedure versus sham procedure ... provide little to no difference ...

Procedures such as epidural steroid injections ... the panel concluded that there was no high certainty evidence for any procedure or combination of procedures, and all low and moderate certainty ...

For a person with pancreatic cancer, surgery may be the only option for a cure, and one such type of surgery is a Whipple procedure (pancreaticoduodenectomy). But a Whipple procedure is a very complex ...

There appears to be limited evidence supporting the use of epidural steroid injections for certain types of chronic lower back pain, new guidance from the American Academy of Neurology finds.