Local anesthesia involves using medications (local anesthetics) to numb an area of your body. It's used to prevent pain ...

Opioid-free surgery can address both physical and emotional well-being through effective anesthesia and complementary ...

"If somebody had a huge abscess, a cracked tooth, or needed to have a tooth extracted, I would certainly attempt to talk them out of refusing local anesthetic. But I would never talk somebody out of ...

There is a real need in the treatment of postoperative pain and in the management of problems of intractable pain for local anesthetics with a duration of action longer than six to eight hours ...

These are often prescribed in addition to local anesthesia and regional anesthesia, as part of a multimodal regimen to help expedite your recovery after surgery. Intravenous "I.V." or Intramuscular "I ...

Local anesthetics such as lidocaine block pain effectively, but they also impair motor and autonomic functions by indiscriminately blocking sodium channels in all neurons. Binshtok et al.

performed a single-blind, randomized, prospective study to investigate whether topical lidocaine application by means of a lollipop could provide efficacious local anesthesia. Fifty patients ...

An epidural is an anesthetic delivered through a catheter (small tube) into a potential space outside the spinal cord called the epidural space. Using this catheter, we are able to infuse a solution ...