One hundred and five patients scheduled for cataract surgery with topical anaesthesia were randomly allocated into 3 groups of 35 patients each to receive eye drops of lidocaine 2%, levobupivacaine ...

The Patient Navigator is a column that answers reader questions on how to navigate our health-care system. Send your questions to patient@globeandmail.com. This particular reader was slated to undergo ...

As hospitals increasingly look for patient-friendly ways to enhance surgical care, calming music in the operating theatre is ...

“I was awake but paralyzed,” says Carol Weihrer as she recalls undergoing eye surgery in 1998. “I could hear the surgeon telling his trainee to ‘cut deeper into the eye,’” she says. “I was screaming, ...

More evidence is mounting that virtual reality might relieve pain during surgery. MIT News reports that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researchers in Boston have published a study indicating ...

As soon as he set eyes on his wife following surgery to mend a broken hip, Tony Hewitt-Miles could tell there was something different about her. 'Rita looked at me vaguely - as if she couldn't quite ...

The question: I recently had knee-replacement surgery, and I just don’t feel like myself. I’m a retired school principal and I used to have an excellent memory. Now I struggle to remember the simplest ...

Veterinarians have completed the first global study that clinically documents the prevalence of hypothermia in dogs after surgery and after diagnostic tests that require anesthetic. The 83.6% of the 1 ...

THE Cosmetic Institute has denied that the woman who had a cardiac arrest during breast augmentation surgery at its Bondi premises was rushed to hospital due to anaesthetic toxicity. A statement from ...

Donna Penner couldn't scream out or move to alert medics, because she was paralysed IT’S a terrifying scenario, that crosses the mind of many patients going in for surgery. What if the anaesthetic ...