Abstract: Although medical simulators have benefited from the use of haptics and virtual reality (VR) for decades, the former has become the bottleneck in producing a low-cost, compact, and accurate ...

Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Furocho, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan ...

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.

Three Jacksonville-area sites were added to the 2025 Florida's 11 to Save list. The Oneida Bungalow Court was recently purchased for restoration into affordable housing, while the St. Johns River ...

Poisonings and deaths linked to the use of the local anesthetic lidocaine have nearly tripled in the US over the past decade, finds an analysis of National Poison Data System (NPDS) reports, published ...

Deaths from lidocaine poisonings more than doubled since 2010, calls to poison control centers suggested. Calls about local anesthetic poisonings decreased by 23%, mainly due to fewer non-lidocaine ...

To investigate the use of local anesthesia in the UroLift® procedure for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), focusing on anesthetic modality, pain management, patient comfort, and the ...

ORLANDO, Fla.—Should anesthesiologists mix local anesthetics for peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs)? The complicated, often contentious issue was debated during a session at the American Society of ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Hydrotropy has emerged as a promising approach to enhance the solubility and the ...

Anesthesia is the use of medicines to cause a loss of feeling or sensation during surgery or other procedures. This loss of feeling might only be in the surgical area, or you might lose consciousness ...

Results from Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) on mixed Local Anesthetics (LA) are conflicting. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis on whether using mixed LA leads to faster onset of ...