NEW ORLEANS, LA—Going with a minimalist approach that involves local instead of general anesthesia appears to have several advantages for patients undergoing TAVR, according to a new meta-analysis. In ...

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 from ...

The localized loss of sensation with resultant reduction in pain stimuli is the end result of local anesthesia. This mode of anesthesia is considered to be safer than general anesthesia, because it ...

Anesthetics, drugs that reduce sensation or, in the case of general anesthetics, awareness, help doctors minimize the pain ...

In rats, the approach extended local anesthesia from hours to weeks, suggesting a possible path toward much longer-lasting ...

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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.

Up to 96% of patient who undergo prostate biopsy report pain. We performed periprostatic local anesthesia injection in an effort to improve patient acceptance of prostate biopsy. Sixty patients were ...

Spinal anesthesia is one of the most dependable tools in modern operating rooms. A single injection of local anesthetic into the cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the spinal cord can render a patient ...

General anesthesia, once the default choice in spine surgeries, is increasingly giving way to local and spinal anesthesia as the preferred option for eligible patients. Since 2024, surgeons at ...