Anesthesia departments are being challenged to deliver the same level of safety and excellence with dwindling resources as hospitals face mounting financial strain. Across the country, anesthesia ...

In 1961, Dr. Leonid Rogozov, a young Soviet surgeon stationed in Antarctica, faced the unthinkable acute appendicitis ...

The FDA is requiring stronger warnings for tranexamic acid (TXA) injection to avoid medication errors following reports of serious injury, including death. "FDA is ...

“An IUD, or intrauterine device, is a small T-shaped device placed in the uterus by your physician,” explains Dr. Adrienne Stevenson, MD, a board-certified ob/gyn and Twentyeight Health care provider.

Clinicians must exercise extreme caution when administering the antifibrinolytic drug to prevent life-threatening mix-ups ...

A lot of people, medical types especially, are unaware that the antihistamine Benadryl (brand name), or diphenhydramine (DPH, its generic name) can be used as local anesthetic for small surgical ...

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 ...

Booty-ful … and wide awake? Brazilian butt lifts (BBLs) have been the shortcut to a perkier behind for years. Now, more patients are choosing to stay alert during ...

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 ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - A big day for one local kid who’s been battling nerve cancer. Friday was Ace’s final day of radiation treatment at the Georgia Cancer Center. In August, the cancer center’s ...

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.