Getting anesthesia for a procedure? Here are the most common side effects you might experience, plus tips to lower your risk ...

Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...

All current local anesthetics block sensory signals—pain—but they also interrupt motor signals, which can be problematic. For example, too much epidural anesthesia can prevent mothers in labor from ...

Surgical procedures to repair the hand have historically been performed in the OR with patients receiving general ...

Two new studies conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago found that poisonings from lidocaine have increased over the last 10 years, despite a general decline in poisonings and ...