Spinal anesthesia is widely used to numb patients during surgery, but its effects sometimes wear off too soon. Many anesthetists have experimented with adding extra drugs to extend pain relief.

Anesthesia tattoos aren't cheap. For instance, a back tattoo while under general anesthesia, Lacoste says, tends to cost between $30,000 to $35,000, depending on the design.

The intubation of patients with acute ischemic stroke has increasingly been carried out at our institution. Thirty-one (77.5%) of 40 patients with acute stroke transferred for endovascular ...

UPDATED: February 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM EST Imagine having ankle surgery without general anesthesia, watching the whole procedure in real time, then walking out of the procedure on that very ankle.

Improvements in the anesthetic and immobilization effects of local anesthesia for dermatological surgery among infants and toddlers may be possible with sleep deprivation, according to study ...

An Illinois dentist stole anesthesia medicine from patients during surgery, feds say. Photo by note thanun on Unsplash. A former Illinois dentist was sentenced to prison after officials said he ...

General anesthesia is a standard medical procedure in todays' hospital practice. Although in most cases the administration of anesthetics does not affect severely the patients health, side effects of ...

To explore I2 value more than 50%, the investigators performed subgroup analyses. These focused on individual characteristics: block method, agent, pre- or postoperative timing, and use of ...

General anesthesia can suppress upper airway muscles. This means it can reduce breathing, slow down your breathing rate, and decrease oxygen levels. For this reason, general anesthesia can be ...

Overall, 268 patients who reported using cannabis within 60 days of surgery (median age, 69 years; 35% women) were matched to 1072 nonusers. The median duration of anesthesia was 175 minutes.