Anesthesia teams are under pressure as surgical demand rises, staffing tightens and financial strains mount. Yet the specialty is entering a pivotal year of change, and the decisions made now will ...

Anesthesiology is heading into a pivotal year, as workforce volatility, reimbursement pressure and policy shifts collide with rising surgical demand and expanding outpatient care. After a period of ...

The Cochrane review conducted in 2001 re-established the usefulness of external cephalic version (ECV). The success rate for ECV using epidural anesthesia or spinal anesthesia is reported to be 35 to ...

Anesthesia is a type of medication that prevents people from feeling pain during or following surgery. There are four main categories of anesthesia: local, regional, general, and sedation. Share on ...

Doctors may use general anesthesia during delivery if regional anesthesia is not a suitable option. Doctors typically reserve general anesthesia for surgical deliveries, such as cesarean deliveries.

General anesthesia can lead to some minor side effects, such as nausea or grogginess. When is general anesthesia used, and is it safe? General anesthesia is very safe. Even if you have significant ...

Beyond surgery, Chinese medical staff also worked to strengthen operating room standards. Zhang Xiaoxia, head nurse of the operating theater, trained local nurses in aseptic procedures and introduced ...

Researchers have found that general anesthesia induces unconsciousness by hijacking the neural circuitry that makes us fall sleep. They traced this neural circuitry back to a cluster of cells at the ...

Sedation Ink artists work on a back tattoo for client Dom Groenveld as he is anesthetized at a surgical office on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Miami, Fla. Sedation Ink offers tattooing under anesthesia, ...