Each year, 40 million anesthetics are administered in the US—and consumers are realizing they have insurance coverage ...

These are often prescribed in addition to local anesthesia and regional anesthesia, as part of a multimodal regimen to help expedite your recovery after surgery. Intravenous "I.V." or Intramuscular "I ...

Let’s start with this accurate account of what happened on Feb. 15, 1922, at Kane Summit Hospital in New York City. A doctor ...

Local anesthetics such as lidocaine block pain effectively, but they also impair motor and autonomic functions by indiscriminately blocking sodium channels in all neurons. Binshtok et al.

An epidural is an anesthetic delivered through a catheter (small tube) into a potential space outside the spinal cord called the epidural space. Using this catheter, we are able to infuse a solution ...

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 ...