Diabetic neuropathy, a common complication of diabetes, entails progressive damage to peripheral nerves and manifests as sensory, motor, and autonomic deficits. In the context of regional anaesthesia, ...

Women, minorities and patients enrolled in Medicaid are less likely to receive regional anesthesia techniques that consistently improve outcomes after surgery, suggests research being presented at the ...

Switching from general to regional anaesthesia may help cut greenhouse emissions and ultimately help reduce global warming, indicates a real life example at one US hospital over the course of a year.

Anaesthesia is a controlled and reversible state of loss of sensation, which may either be with or without a loss of consciousness, which may be induced to allow surgical or diagnostic procedures.

An existing surgical robot could be used to perform complex regional anesthesia procedures -- in theory, allowing expert anesthesiologists to perform robot-assisted procedures from remote locations, ...

The use of regional anesthesia reduces acute postoperative pain associated with noncardiac surgery. It also decreases the incidence of prolonged opioid use and chronic postoperative pain at 3 and 6 ...

Owing to the overall poor medical health of patients with end-stage renal disease, we have sought alternatives to the use of general anesthesia for access procedures. Furthermore, since local ...

A highly underutilized anesthesia technique called neuraxial anesthesia, also known as spinal or epidural anesthesia, improves outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement, according to a ...

Regional Anesthesia Linked to Better Hip Fracture Outcomes Regional anesthesia is associated with a lower risk of death and pulmonary complications compared with general anesthesia in patients ...

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ISLAMABAD: Having a regional anaesthetic to relieve pain after hip fracture surgery might lower the rate of delirium after surgery in elderly patients, according to researchers. At least half of ...