HonorHealth Deer Valley Medical Center in Phoenix has added awake spine surgery, according to a May 4 feature from the health system. Surgeons with the hospital used awake spine surgery for an L4-L5 ...

I had a successful L1-L2 fusion some time ago using a bone graft from my hip. Now I need to have prostate surgery for BPH (Ugh!) and was told that I would need either general anesthesia or a spinal ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released a drug safety advisory with recommendations aimed at reducing the risk of spinal column bleeding after spinal intervention, including epidural ...

It sounds dramatic, but spinal anaesthesia is actually one of the safest and most elegant techniques in modern medicine. For anaesthetists, it’s a powerful way to perform surgery while keeping ...

Anesthesiologists must always wear face masks when material is injected into the epidural or spinal space, regardless of location, according to a post in Anesthesiology by J. Lance Lichtor, MD, ...

Older adults who underwent hip fracture surgery fared about the same at 60 days post-procedure regardless of whether they received spinal or general anesthesia, a randomized study found. In addition, ...

Q: I have a minor surgical procedure coming up. Will I have any say in the type of anesthesia the doctor uses? A: For some surgical procedures, more than one type of anesthesia may be appropriate. The ...

Undergoing general or spinal anesthesia does not alter short term adverse events in patients undergoing outpatient total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgery, according to researchers from the Warren ...

A new study published in The BMJ shows that people who had surgery to improve blood flow in their legs under spinal or epidural anesthesia were less likely to die than those who were given general ...

A randomized trial evaluating spinal as compared with general anesthesia for hip-fracture surgery in adults 50 years of age or older did not show superiority of spinal anesthesia with respect to a ...