Anesthesia is an important part of modern medicine. It’s hard to grasp how in the past people underwent surgeries without numbing their sensations first. Luckily, in the 21 st century, we have a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During multilevel spinal fusion, lidocaine may be used for balanced anesthesia with little impact on the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . LAS VEGAS — Compared with bupivacaine, lidocaine had a more favorable complication profile when used for ...

Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...

Using 2 percent lidocaine gel as a supplement to topical anesthesia with 0.5 percent proparacaine may make LASIK procedures less painful, according to a study reported on OSN Super Site. According to ...

A new study has uncovered how the commonly used local anesthetic drug, lidocaine, activates bitter taste receptors to exert an anti-cancer effect in head and neck cancers. Given its low cost and ready ...

Patients given ester-based local anesthetics may be at greater risk of having serious complications when they are administered numbing agents, according to a study published on March 31 in the ...

Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...

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