A study published in the Nov. 2011 issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery showed that using spinal and local anesthesia instead of general anesthesia may decrease post-operative length of stay and ...

Patients undergoing endovascular aortic aneurysm repair experience less pulmonary morbidity and shorter hospital stay when they receive spinal or local anesthesia instead of general anesthesia, ...

Patients undergoing endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) experience less pulmonary morbidity and shorter hospital stay if they are given spinal or local anesthesia as opposed to general ...

Dilatation and Curettage can be done under general, spinal or local anesthesia. The different types of anesthesias given to a patient prior to the procedure depend on both the choice of the ...

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 ...

Up to 96% of patient who undergo prostate biopsy report pain. We performed periprostatic local anesthesia injection in an effort to improve patient acceptance of prostate biopsy. Sixty patients were ...

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 ...

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 ...

The reversible and controlled induction of loss of motor and sensory function through the injection of local anesthetics into the epidural space is referred to as epidural anesthesia. This mode of ...