Preoperative patient education may influence the patient’s choice of anesthetic technique for total knee arthroplasty, according to a poster presented at the 41st Annual Regional Anesthesiology and ...

Older adults who underwent hip fracture surgery fared about the same at 60 days post-procedure regardless of whether they received spinal or general anesthesia, a randomized study found. In addition, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published results showed rate of survival and recovery of ambulation at 60 days did not differ between use of ...

Declan Koehler was a little cranky Friday as he lay on the operating table at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Responding to the 7-month-old boy’s cries, one anesthesiologist offered up a cellphone ...

At the 21st Annual Becker’s ASC Conference in Chicago on Oct. 25, Peter G. Whang, MD, FACS, Associate Professor at the Spine Service Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Yale University ...

Spinal stenosis surgery helps to reopen your spinal canal, the channel in your backbone that houses your spinal cord and other nerves. A doctor does the surgery when the space in the canal narrows ...

Almost all pregnant women hope to give birth through natural or spontaneous labor. Unfortunately, in some cases, pregnant women are faced with several birthing options. For example, spinal anesthesia ...