As certified registered nurse anesthetists gain broader legal authority to practice independently in many states and as the anesthesia workforce shortage deepens, many leaders are seeing ASCs adopting ...

Before 1846, surgery was a crude and brutal undertaking, typically performed on conscious patients lashed to their beds. Then a Boston dentist publicly demonstrated that the highly flammable chemical ...

For example, if 0.4 mL of buprenorphine solution (providing 0.12 mg of buprenorphine) is mixed with 1 mL of local anesthetic, the total volume prepared is 1.4 mL. However, for a site with limited ...

People are paying thousands to go under anesthesia for tattoos. Here's what doctors want you to know about the controversial trend.

Doctors in ancient Greece pioneered anesthesia with natural remedies like mandrake, opium and henbane to ease pain during surgeries.

They acknowledged "low certainty" about, for example, intramuscular anesthetic injections and joint radiofrequency therapy for chronic axial pain, and about epidural injections of anesthetics or ...

"Stay informed on the top five issues affecting anesthesia providers in 2025, including declining reimbursement rates, changes in CRNA policies, new standards o ...

General anesthesia is a procedure in which you’re given medications to make you unconscious and unable to feel pain during surgery or other medical treatments.

Abstract The sedative and anesthetic actions of several essential oils (EO) on fish have been demonstrated, stimulating the search for new options for natural anesthetics. This work evaluated the ...

A general anesthetic drug has been found to induce unconsciousness by causing brain activity to become increasingly unstable.