Face-to-face seated positioning made cataract surgery feasible for patients who were unable to lie flat or face the ceiling, a study found. The technique is suitable for many patients with orthopedic, ...

CHICAGO – Placing patients in the prone Trendelenburg position during spine surgery may put them at an increased risk for postoperative vision loss. Previously found to occur in 0.05% to 0.2% of spine ...

General anesthesia leads to better functional outcomes than conscious sedation in stroke patients with large vessel occlusion ...

Positioning patients with large vessel ischemic (clot-caused) stroke with their heads flat (0-degrees) before surgery to remove the blood clot resulted in significant improvements in neurological ...

The image-guided navigation system is similar to the location and directional tracking systems used for cars and ships today -- it is, in effect, a global positioning system (GPS) for the surgeon.

Non-OR procedure suites -- such as cardiac catheterization labs, interventional radiology suites, or gastroenterology suites -- continue to increase in number and caseload, leading anesthesiology ...