Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from ...

Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...

Discover how Benadryl, a common antihistamine, can be used as a local anesthetic for minor surgical procedures and dental ...

Anaesthesia is one of medicine’s greatest mysteries — and safest miracles. Here’s how anaesthesiologists keep you pain-free, stable, and alive during surgery, and why science still can’t fully explain ...

Today is World Anaesthesia Day 2025. Marking this historic date, Anaesthesiologist explains how anaesthesiologists, along ...

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 ...

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar ...

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar ...

On World Anaesthesia Day 2025, learn common myths and facts about anesthesia. Is anesthesia like sleep? Does it cause memory ...

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