Local anesthesia prevents pain during procedures by blocking nerves from transmitting pain signals to the brain. The effects of local anesthetic are short-lived, so healthcare teams primarily use ...

A new molecule acts like a local, long-lasting anesthetic, providing robust pain relief for up to three weeks.

What is local anesthesia? Learn about when and why it's used, its types, and its side effects and safety.

A local anesthetic is a drug that reversibly inhibits the propagation of signals along nerves. When it is used on specific nerve pathways, effects such as analgesia (loss of pain sensation) and ...

Paravertebral blocks reduced postoperative opioid use and early pain scores in young children who underwent thoracotomy.

Local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) is estimated to occur in 1 of 1000 local anesthetic administrations 1, 2 It results from supratherapeutic levels of local anesthetic in the bloodstream. Most ...

Local anesthesia blocks voltage-gated sodium channels and thereby prevents activation of prometastatic pathways. We conducted an open-label, multicenter randomized trial to test the impact of ...

Would there be a sort of local anesthetic on the market that one could apply (perhaps even spray) on a small area of the body that may need minor but painful treatment, like removing a large splinter ...

I'm 9 weeks pregnant and went to a skin specialist in December before I knew I was expecting. She booked an appointment for later this week to take two moles out of my back with a local anesthetic. I ...

A new study has uncovered how the commonly used local anesthetic drug, lidocaine, activates bitter taste receptors to exert an anti-cancer effect in head and neck cancers. Given its low cost and ...

Effect of Peritumoral Infiltration of Local Anesthetic Before Surgery on Survival in Early Breast Cancer The following represents disclosure information provided by authors of this manuscript. All ...

You might need general anesthesia if you have surgery. It makes you go into a deep sleep, and you don’t feel pain during the procedure.