World Anaesthesia Day is celebrated every year on 16 October. On this day, an attempt is made to spread awareness about the important role anaesthesia plays in health services. This day is also ...

Two new studies published in Anaesthesia analyzing pain and other factors connected with day surgery in the UK show that ...

Local anaesthetic is widely used in ophthalmic surgery and more recently in vitreoretinal surgery. Akinesia is a useful effect of local anaesthetic blocks, but there are situations where some residual ...

Dr. H. had a struggling heart and a consequential decision to make. He needed an operation to fix a faulty valve but postponed it, afraid that the surgery and anesthesia would irrevocably damage his ...

As spine surgery steadily moves toward outpatient settings, the limiting factors are no longer primarily clinical. Advances in surgical technique, anesthesia and pain management have made far more ...

‘On 16th October, the successful and historical ether anesthesia administration by Dr. William T. G. Morgan made it possible to perform surgeries that could sometimes be even lifesaving without ...

BANGALORE, India — Cataract surgery can successfully be performed without the use of any anesthetic agents, according to the personal experiences of several practitioners. “I am not advocating that ...

In adults over 70, exposure to general anesthesia and surgery is associated with a subtle decline in memory and thinking skills, according to new Mayo Clinic research. The study analyzed nearly 2,000 ...

Researchers also found that one in 14 day case surgery patients have new or worse chronic pain within three months of their ...