The combined rate of heart attack, stroke, bleeding complications or death was 16.6% in the ticagrelor group and 14.2% in the ...

Although the majority of outpatient procedures involve general anesthesia, opting for spinal anesthesia carries some benefits ...

A joint study between the United States and South Korea has found that traditional Korean medicine treatments, such as Chuna ...

Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to concerns about the effects that general anesthesia may have on newborns during ...

Epidurals are the most common form of pain relief during labor in the U.S., and they're very effective. The procedure involves placing a thin catheter in your lower back to deliver pain-blocking ...

What Is the Occipital Nerve? The occipital nerve is actually a group of nerves that give you feeling in your scalp. They branch off from larger nerves in your spinal cord. There are three kinds of ...

Indian-origin physician Dr Suman Khulbe's licence canceled in Canada for sexual abuse, professing love to patients. Dr Suman Khulbe, an Indian-origin physician in Canada, lost her registration to ...

Background: To compare the anesthetic and analgesic effects of popliteal sciatic nerve block and intrathecal anesthesia in acute Achilles tendon rupture patients undergoing surgery. Methods: This ...

Regional nerve block is one type of anaesthetic women can receive when having a caesarean section. Two different methods are used. Single-shot spinal involves a single injection of anaesthetic into ...

FORT DETRICK, Md. – The U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Organ Support and Automation Technologies team is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory to ...

Low-dose hypobaric mepivacaine and bupivacaine provide adequate spinal anesthesia for hip and knee arthroplasty, with 93% of patients completing surgery without supplementation. Motor function ...