General anesthesia is a combination of medications that a person breathes through a mask or receives through a catheter in a vein to cause a person to fall asleep. In contrast, regional anesthesia is ...

Regional block is a safe and, in our opinion, preferred technique for providing anesthesia for upper extremity vascular surgery. The venodilatation observed is augmented compared with that using a ...

The Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine (RAAPM) fellowship program consists of twelve months of post-graduate training after successful completion of an accredited residency program in ...

Pharmaceutical company Avenacy has launched Propofol injectable emulsion, USP, in the U.S. to be used for intravenous general anesthetic and sedation. The drug has been approved by the FDA as a ...

Conscious surgery is safer for heart or lung patients and the elderly as it rules out the side-effects of anesthesia, but won ...

general anesthesia, and regional anesthesia. Additional clinical subspecialty rotations provide anesthesia management experience for the obstetrical, pediatric, cardiac, and neurosurgical patients.

You are your best advocate to ask if alternate anesthesia approaches can be used, such as the use of nerve blocks or regional anesthesia to reduce intraoperative and postoperative pain," Graber says.

Today, the Department of Anesthesiology at West China Hospital that he leads conducts about 250,000 anesthesia procedures per year with fewer than 1 death per 500,000 cases over the past 15 years.

performed a single-blind, randomized, prospective study to investigate whether topical lidocaine application by means of a lollipop could provide efficacious local anesthesia. Fifty patients ...