While doctors have significantly refined their techniques over the subsequent 150 years— ether made patients throw up and was flammable enough to cause mid-surgery explosions —there are still ...

All current local anesthetics block sensory signals—pain—but they also interrupt motor signals, which can be problematic. For ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A strategy of local anesthesia without sedation was safe vs. conscious sedation for patients undergoing TAVR.

Identical twin sisters Miki Keller and Donna Keller are inseparable. The 49-year-olds from Los Angeles live near each other, vacation together and even feel each other's pain. "When she broke her back ...

A higher intensity of pain during infiltration of local anesthesia during cesarean delivery was associated with increased pain at 24 hours postpartum and lower global health ratings, although the ...