Literature concerning the effectiveness of nerve blocks with local anesthetics in neuralgia is inadequate, according to a report published in the June 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia. According ...

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 ...

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

JERUSALEM — Most home medicine cabinets are equipped with acetaminophen for headache and fever relief and have been for nearly a century. Yet despite being one of the most widely used pain relievers ...

Diabetic neuropathy, a common complication of diabetes, entails progressive damage to peripheral nerves and manifests as sensory, motor, and autonomic deficits. In the context of regional anaesthesia, ...

Autonomic neural blockade may represent a unique way to manage postoperative visceral pain and associated symptoms following minimally invasive weight loss surgery, according to a new report in JAMA ...