Anesthesiology may be one of the most essential but least understood specialties in healthcare. As financial pressures mount ...

According to Germany’s Federal Health Reporting database, there were around 16 million surgeries in the country between 2010 and 2016. Data on whether general anesthesia or regional anesthesia was ...

The effects of spinal anesthesia as compared with general anesthesia on the ability to walk in older adults undergoing surgery for hip fracture have not been well studied. We conducted a pragmatic, ...

ND4 variant (m.11232T>C) to severe neurologic injury after sevoflurane in patients with Venezuelan maternal ancestry, prompting international alerts.

PHILADELPHIA—Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to concerns about the effects that general anesthesia may have on ...

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Inside an operating theater at Tanzania's Zanzibar Lumumba Regional Referral Hospital, Mwadini Maalim Simai, head of the anesthesiology department, leaned ...

WPI researchers develop flexible optical fiber technology to improve and expand outpatient laser surgery for tumors in the ...

The first successful public demonstration of the inhalational induction of anesthesia took place in the surgical amphitheater of Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846. The news spread ...

There are many advantages to using local anesthesia with IV sedation during minimally invasive spinal procedures. Agnes P. Green, MD, a board certified anesthesiologist at The Bonati Spine Institute ...