The word "surgery" often leads to a discussion about other things, including the type of anesthesia that will be used during a procedure. The truth is, there are many different types of anesthesia ...
Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...
SAN DIEGO — Intermediate- to high-risk patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVR) had equally good safety and efficacy outcomes with two types of second-generation valves ...
The Centers for Orthopedics in Portland, Maine, has been using a new type of local anesthesia for nearly a year, according to local ABC affiliate WGME. The practice is using multimodal analgesia — a ...
Medically reviewed by Edmund Khoo, DDSMedically reviewed by Edmund Khoo, DDS Novocaine (procaine) is an injectable anesthetic that prevents pain by numbing a small, localized area. Once one of the ...
A higher intensity of pain during infiltration of local anesthesia during cesarean delivery was associated with increased pain at 24 hours postpartum and lower global health ratings, although the ...