If you've ever been curious to know what can happen during an op, one TikTok account has provided a demonstration using a ...

I still remember when a patient woke up from hip surgery in tears—tears of relief. She had been terrified of waking up groggy ...

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Pharmaceutical company Avenacy has launched Propofol injectable emulsion, USP, in the U.S. to be used for intravenous general anesthetic and sedation. The drug has been approved by the FDA as a ...

This local anaesthetic is none other than lidocaine. It's widely used around the world for minor surgery. And its benefits ...

This can happen when someone has underlying or undiagnosed memory and thinking problems. This has led to questions about whether the general anaesthetic used during surgery can cause dementia, but ...

Objective: To investigate the risks and benefits of the use of local anaesthetic in a descriptive case series from three professional football (rugby league and Australian football) teams. Methods: ...

A gynaecologist and an obstetrics and gynaecology trainee have been censured after performing a procedure on a woman without local anaesthetic causing her "the most incredibly horrific pain".