The latest procedure gaining attention is “awake-only” liposuction, often marketed as a safer, faster alternative to ...

General anesthesia (GA) may amplify pre-existing cerebral vulnerability for patients with psychiatric or neurologic disorders undergoing orthopedic surgery, according to a mechanistic narrative review ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Several years ago, in my early 80s, my gynecologist told me (like all women who mainly stayed indoors) that I should be taking 4,000 IU of vitamin D3 daily. Yet today, I read an ...

After 2010, there was an increase in reports of lidocaine poisoning and reports of lidocaine mortality. HealthDay News — Poisonings and deaths linked to use of local anesthetics decreased over the ...

Poisonings and deaths linked to use of local anesthetics decreased over the last decade, but poisonings from lidocaine increased. HealthDay News — Poisonings and deaths linked to use of local ...

Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...

All current local anesthetics block sensory signals — pain — but they also interrupt motor signals, which can be problematic. For example, too much epidural anesthesia can prevent mothers in labor ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A strategy of local anesthesia without sedation was safe vs. conscious sedation for patients undergoing TAVR.

Following publication of advisories, reports of local anesthetic poisoning decreased, but reports of lidocaine poisoning and mortality increased. HealthDay News — Local anesthetic poisoning reports ...

There was a decrease noted in reports of death in the operating room, from 47% before 2010 to 15% after 2010 in a case analysis. HealthDay News — Local anesthetic poisoning reports decreased following ...