General anesthesia is a combination of medications that a person breathes through a mask or receives through a catheter in a vein to cause a person to fall asleep. In contrast, regional anesthesia is ...

Older patients who underwent hip fracture surgery with either regional anesthesia without sedation or general anesthesia ...

The Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine (RAAPM) fellowship program consists of twelve months of post-graduate training after successful completion of an accredited residency program in ...

The ASRA releases its fifth iteration of evidence-based guidelines on regional anesthesia in patients on antithrombotic or ...

THURSDAY, Jan. 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- In multidisciplinary guidelines issued by the American Society of Regional ...

A CENTURY ago, on January 24, 1848, one of the principal actors in the drama of anæsthesia died in prison by his own hand at the age of thirty-three. Born at Hartford, Vermont, on January 21 ...

Regional anaesthesia numbs a larger area by targeting specific nerves, such as those involved in chest surgeries while general anaesthesia puts the patient to sleep and often requires machines to ...