Awake spine surgery has largely been limited to shorter, simpler procedures, but Stanley Hoang, MD, of Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport, La., has leveraged the technique in new ways. Dr. Hoang, who ...

Today, facelift results can be so natural, and it is hard to detect that someone has undergone a surgical lift. Of course, advancements in modern facelift techniques, the expertise of the facial ...

There are all sorts of stories about people who do crazy things after waking up from anesthesia. Some folks start speaking a ...

The first time I went under the knife, I remember the anesthesiologist asking me to count backward. “Ten, nine, eight…” and then it all went black. The next thing I knew, three hours had passed, yet ...

A shortage of anesthesia clinicians in Tennessee and across the U.S. threatens to delay medical procedures. Anesthesiology is among the top five healthcare specialties with the most acute shortages, ...

Intraoperative complication rate was 0.14%, with no sedation adverse events and no cases aborted after sedation initiation. HealthDay News — Office-based cataract surgery with oral sedation is safe ...

Giving patients oral diazepam before they undergo cataract surgery, instead of running an intravenous (IV) drip with sedatives, can provide adequate, complication-free sedation, a single-center study ...

Frank Charles, a pet-resort owner and former five-term mayor of St. Augustine, Florida, wanted a tattoo. He just wasn’t sure that he could take the pain. Then he started seeing advertisements for a ...

Preliminary findings from a new clinical trial show no adverse neurodevelopmental effects after brief inhaled anesthesia and surgery in infants and young children, reports the Online First edition of ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The age of anesthesia began in 1846, when a man named Edward Abbott ...

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.