Background: The use of infiltration injection of lidocaine with adrenaline in outpatient plastic surgeries has certain limitations, such as injection pain, increased blood pressure, and heart rate ...

PHOTO PROVIDED Local baker, Rachael Thomas, is thriving in her business following a minimally invasive carpal tunnel procedure at UPMC. WILLIAMSPORT — Rachael Thomas spent years in office jobs before ...

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 ...

When I first started practicing gastroenterology, most of our endoscopy patients received 50 mg of meperidine and 2 mg of midazolam, and they did just fine. Not any more. More and more of our patients ...

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 ...

GREENSBORO — Thursday afternoon, July 17, two-year-old Er’Mias Mitchell’s parents took their toddler to the ValleyGate Dental Surgery Center in Greensboro for a dental procedure. He should have come ...

Anesthesia is the use of medicines to cause a loss of feeling or sensation during surgery or other procedures. This loss of feeling might only be in the surgical area, or you might lose consciousness ...

Intravenous (i.v.) anesthetics include etomidate, midazolam, propofol, thiopental, ketamine, and opioid agonists. The first four agents act by enhancing the activity of the inhibitory neurotransmitter ...

Dr. Kevin Zorn, MD, FRCSC, FACS, Urologist, discusses BPH and the TURP procedure. Senate passes resolution to end Trump’s global tariffs; 4 Republicans side with Dems Billie Eilish Had a Message for ...

Mike Barletta, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVAA; Tasha McNerney, CVT, CVPP, VTS (Anesthesia & Analgesia); and Kristen Ward, BSN-RN, RVT, VTS, shared their approach at Fetch Nashville 2025 In a recent continuing ...

Neuraxial anesthesia vs general anesthesia for hip fracture procedures significantly reduced postoperative complications, critical care admissions, hospital readmissions, length of stay, costs, and ...