Sadeq A. Quraishi, MD, MHA, Resident Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania.

"I saw everything," says 74-year-old Harry Stackhouse from Illinois, who was awake during his recent kidney transplant. He felt no pain as he chatted with doctors, examined the donor organ, and ...

Spinal anesthesia is not safer or more effective than general anesthesia in patients who undergo surgery for hip fractures, according to a major study. The finding, which challenges the accepted view, ...

The occurrence of hypotension during spinal anaesthesia in cesarean delivery presents a significant challenge in obstetric anaesthesia. Ondansetron, a 5‐HT3 receptor antagonist traditionally used to ...

A new study published in The BMJ shows that people who had surgery to improve blood flow in their legs under spinal or epidural anesthesia were less likely to die than those who were given general ...

Traumatic spinal cord injury is more common in patients receiving sedation or general anesthesia and in patients who are unresponsive during the procedure, according to a study published in ...

Researchers could not confirm whether adding a small dose of lidocaine to intrathecal hyperbaric bupivacaine could shorten the duration of sensory or motor blocks or time to readiness for discharge ...

Women’s level of education may predict their choice to use epidural or spinal anesthesia during a singleton birth via vaginal delivery, according to a study published in National Vital Statistics ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to published results, spinal anesthesia combined with the use of a tourniquet resulted in increased ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with bupivacaine, patients who had ropivacaine had superior ambulation time and distance, quicker ...

Today, deliveries via cesarean sections, or c-sections, have become quite common globally. Sometimes, c-sections are a medical necessity when normal deliveries become risky either for the mother or ...