Bupivacaine: A local anesthetic drug commonly used for spinal anesthesia. Epidural anesthesia: An injection of the anesthetic drug into the epidural space (space just before the dura matter) covering ...

The field of cutaneous analgesia and spinal anaesthesia has evolved considerably, underpinning advances in pain management for surgical and diagnostic procedures. Cutaneous analgesia focuses on ...

Spinal anesthesia was developed in the latter part of the last century when the German physicians Bier and Hildebrandt injected cocaine into their own cerebrospinal fluids. They experienced varying ...

Another and important means of prevention of neurologic disease after spinal anesthesia involves the proper selection of patients. Afflictions of the central nervous system and spinal column are ...

(Reuters Health) - Access to pain relief during childbirth in the U.S. may vary depending on where women live, a study suggests. Researchers who analyzed more than 2.6 million deliveries in 2015 found ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of U.S. women who die from anesthesia complications during childbirth has fallen sharply in recent decades. But deaths specifically related to so-called regional ...

Anesthesia on the Continent has lagged behind anesthesia in the United States.... Recently, however, a large number of Continental clinics are using intravenous anesthesia extensively not only for ...

A medical expert, Ifeanyi Kene-Aghadi, says that patients with a history of scorpion bites have a tendency to exhibit resistance to bupivacaine spinal block anaesthesia. Kene-Aghadi, of the department ...

(CNN) --Women who have general anesthesia during C-sections are significantly more likely to experience severe post-partum depression resulting in hospitalization, suicidal thoughts or self-harm, ...

Researchers stress that such deaths remain rare. But they also say the results point to an area where anesthesia can be made safer for women. Regional anesthesia numbs the lower portion of the body ...