Nov. 20 -- WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Spinal anesthesia won't cause or worsen restless legs syndrome. That's the conclusion of a new study published as a letter to the editor in the Nov.

A study conducted by KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) and National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Engineering shows that the world's first novel artificial intelligence ...

BOSTON — Use of spinal anesthesia instead of general anesthesia for spine surgery improved patient recovery and reduced costs by nearly 10%, according to the results of a single-institution study ...

Bupivacaine: A local anesthetic drug commonly used for spinal anesthesia. Epidural anesthesia: An injection of the anesthetic drug into the epidural space (space just before the dura matter) covering ...

Spinal anesthesia was developed in the latter part of the last century when the German physicians Bier and Hildebrandt injected cocaine into their own cerebrospinal fluids. They experienced varying ...

Another and important means of prevention of neurologic disease after spinal anesthesia involves the proper selection of patients. Afflictions of the central nervous system and spinal column are ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with bupivacaine, patients who had ropivacaine had superior ambulation time and distance, quicker ...

The question of whether an epidural or spinal is advisable after spinal surgery does not appear to have been studied systematically. What we know and how we practice is based on case reports, most of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with bupivacaine spinal anesthesia, mepivacaine allowed for faster same-day discharge from an ASC with ...

There are no differences in the safety or effectiveness of the two most common types of anaesthetic (spinal versus general anaesthesia) in patients undergoing hip fracture surgery, according to the ...