After several suspected adverse events surfaced, the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists has directed healthcare ...

BOSTON — Use of spinal anesthesia instead of general anesthesia for spine surgery improved patient recovery and reduced costs by nearly 10%, according to the results of a single-institution study ...

Spinal anesthesia is not safer or more effective than general anesthesia in patients who undergo surgery for hip fractures, according to a major study. The finding, which challenges the accepted view, ...

How can we quickly identify diabetic patients at highest risk for severe hypotension following spinal anesthesia? As diabetes becomes increasingly common among surgical candidates, ...

For some surgeries, spinal anesthesia has been increasingly used instead of general anesthesia as a method to provide more comfort to patients and cut down on painkiller use. But research among hip ...

Doctors nationwide have been urged to halt the use of Themis-manufactured bupivacaine for spinal anaesthesia. This urgent ...

A study conducted by KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) and National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Engineering shows that the world's first novel artificial intelligence ...

When one trains to become a physician, there is a first time for everything - the first scary day in anatomy lab, the first physical exam, the first IV. My most memorable first was the time I poked a ...

Spinal anesthesia is not safer or more effective than general anesthesia in patients who undergo surgery for hip fractures, according to a major study. The finding, which challenges the accepted view, ...

Spinal anesthesia was developed in the latter part of the last century when the German physicians Bier and Hildebrandt injected cocaine into their own cerebrospinal fluids. They experienced varying ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published results showed use of spinal anesthesia during hip fracture surgery led to more pain in the first 24 ...