A recent study found that the use and cost of anesthesia services in gastroenterology procedures is increasing, according to a Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News report. The study, published in the ...

General anesthesia — the enabler of modern surgery and medical intervention — is one of the great triumphs of the scientific method. Ether, the compound from which almost all modern anesthetics are ...

Doctors know how to use anesthetics, but they don't know the mechanism behind them. What DARPA is striving for with ABC is to solicit ideas on how to create a simpler, easy-to-apply battlefield ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO - The best uses of established local dental anesthetics, as well as the future use of nasal spray and long-acting anesthetics, were the focus of an opening-day session at the ADA 2014 ...

Terrence P. Murphy, MD, a cosmetic surgeon in Denver, is questioning some cosmetic surgeons’ use of “awake surgery,” involving high doses of local anesthesia without sedation, according to a release ...

Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Health has largely phased out its use of desflurane in anesthesia, according to a July 25 WHRO News report. Desflurane is a greenhouse gas used for anesthesia. It became ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of spinal anesthesia during total hip arthroplasty may reduce postoperative pain scores and oral morphine ...

* review results in new warnings about using general anesthetics and sedation drugs in young children and pregnant women Sign up here. * to better inform public about potential risk, we are requiring ...

With the emerging trend of using anesthesia or sedation for lengthy tattoo sessions, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has issued new guidance urging caution to emphasize that these ...

Dr. Elizabeth Hansen. Courtesy of Seattle Children’s. Did you know that some of the gases used in anesthesia are strong greenhouse gases? A few years ago, Seattle Children’s Hospital analyzed its ...