In patients undergoing hip replacement surgery, using a special wound catheter to infuse local anesthetic directly into the hip joint provides significant and lasting improvements in postoperative ...

GONE are the days when surgery meant cutting a patient open. Modern medicine offers doctors a panoply of less invasive tools to thrust inside disease-stricken bodies. One popular method is to insert ...

Continuous peripheral nerve block has been shown to be superior to traditional opioid-based analgesia in terms of improved analgesia with reduced sedation, nausea, pruritis, and hospital stay. Because ...

Anaesthesia means 'insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations', but how does it work and what are the ...

There is not enough evidence about how well this procedure works or how safe it is. This type of procedure can cause complications. So, it can only be done with special arrangements. This means you ...

Whilst many procedures can be performed in standing sedated horses with the help of local anaesthetic drugs, there are occasions when full general anaesthesia is required for procedures to be carried ...