S-ketamine may be beneficial in reducing the risk for postoperative delirium in older adults undergoing total hip or knee ...

Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yeouido St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea Background: Although pharmacokinetic and ...

Department of Urology, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of ...

This article is the first of a 3-part series on perioperative brain monitoring, and describes the use of the Bispectral Index monitoring system in surgeries using total intravenous anesthesia to help ...

My most disturbing experience in a medical setting happened when I was 21. I underwent a routine procedure under general anesthesia and, while on the table, I woke up. It was my junior year in college ...

A two-year-old boy died after a visit to Valleygate Dental Surgery Center in Greensboro. The family of Er'Mias Mitchell told WXII that he was there for a cavity surgery involving anesthesia, and that ...

Background The impact of choosing between inhalational anesthetics and propofol for maintenance anesthesia in liver transplantation or liver resections remains uncertain. Methods A systematic search ...

Marlis Rezende, DVM, PhD, MSc, DACVAA, discusses the common conditions she sees in practice that best utilize TIVA for pain management. Marlis Rezende, DVM, PhD, MSc, DACVAA, an associate professor of ...

DISEASE. MERCY MEDICAL CENTER DISCOVERED A BREAKTHROUGH WAY TO CONDUCT TOTAL ANKLE REPLACEMENT SURGERY. THE PROCEDURE IS CALLED ZIMMER BIOMET. TRABECULAR METAL TOTAL ANKLE REPLACEMENT. IT’S A LONG ...