Background: Spinal anesthesia (SA) is a good alternative to general anesthesia (GA) for spine surgery. Despite that, a few case series concern the use of thoracic spinal anesthesia for short-duration ...

Background: A chronic cranial subdural hematoma arising after post-spinal anesthesia is a rare but serious and life-threatening complication of spinal anesthesia. It usually mimics the typical ...

Spinal anesthesia is a type of regional anesthesia used to block pain in the lower part of the body. It involves using a thin needle to inject a small amount of medicine into the lower back (into the ...

The development of regional anesthesia started with the isolation of local anesthetics, the first being cocaine (the only naturally occurring local anesthetic). The first regional anesthetic technique ...

1 Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University Clinics of Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, DR Congo. 2 Department of Surgery, Great Hospital of Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium. 3 Department of Surgery, ...

Patients receiving spinal anesthesia reported slightly worse pain levels, scoring an average of 7.9 out of 10 versus 7.6 for those under general anesthesia. A Study Finds That Hip Fracture Patients ...

BOSTON — Use of spinal anesthesia instead of general anesthesia for spine surgery improved patient recovery and reduced costs by nearly 10%, according to the results of a single-institution study ...

Nov. 20 -- WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Spinal anesthesia won't cause or worsen restless legs syndrome. That's the conclusion of a new study published as a letter to the editor in the Nov.

Awake spine surgery has largely been limited to shorter, simpler procedures, but Stanley Hoang, MD, of Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport, La., has leveraged the technique in new ways. Dr. Hoang, who ...