A numbing medicine largely abandoned decades ago for pain control during surgery could be making a comeback as an effective spinal anesthetic for today's modern-day knee replacement. In two companion ...

When one trains to become a physician, there is a first time for everything - the first scary day in anatomy lab, the first physical exam, the first IV. My most memorable first was the time I poked a ...

Q I am going to have an operation on my right hip, and my doctor spoke to me about spinal anaesthetic. What is the difference between a general and a spinal anaesthetic? A A general anaesthetic is ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wenzel Spine, Inc., a medical technology company focused on providing minimally invasive surgical and diagnostic solutions for the treatment of spinal disorders, today ...

Doctors use blood patch procedures to treat spinal headaches, rare events that may happen after epidurals or other medical procedures involving the spine. In a blood patch your own blood is injected ...

Heitor Medeiros, MD, and A. Sassan Sabouri, MD, of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, are the lead and corresponding authors, respectively ...

The advantages of a spinal anaesthetic over a general one are that there is a lower risk of infection after surgery, less effect on the lungs and breathing, good pain relief immediately after surgery, ...

Wenzel Spine launched the Stand-alone lumbar interbody fusion procedure using the VariLift-Lx device, the devicemaker said Aug. 29. Varilift-Lx is the only standalone posterior lumbar interbody fusion ...

Most of our patients don't spend the night in the hospital following their joint replacement surgery. During your stay, your care team will do everything possible to ensure you are comfortable and ...