Confusion and headache are common side effects experienced by some patients who receive anesthetic injections. Drinking ...

Factors like the type of anesthesia used, the circumstances of the procedure, and even medical bias can lead to an ...

FlatTech LLC, doing business as Flat Medical today announced that it was honored during Premier, Inc.'s annual supplier Innovation Celebration at the 2025 Breakthroughs Conference and Exhibition. The ...

Spinal and epidural anesthesia are two types of regional anesthesia used to numb a larger part of the body from the waist down. An epidural block is injected into the ...

Epidural anesthesia increases the risk for operative vaginal deliveries in both nulliparous and multiparous women, and increases risk for cesarean deliveries in nulliparous more so than in ...

Local anesthesia is frequently used in small procedures, such as dental fillings or applying stitches to a cut, while those who have had an epidural during childbirth or a biopsy procedure have ...

Some three years after China started promoting the use of epidural anesthesia for natural births, the country’s top medical experts claimed that a majority of pregnant women were still not being given ...

China said that by the end of this year all tertiary level hospitals must offer epidural anesthesia during childbirth, a move it said would help promote a “friendly childbearing environment ...

But when it came time to give an epidural to Sha-Asia Semple, a pregnant 26-year-old woman in labor, at Woodhull Medical Center on July 3, 2020, Dr. Shelchkov botched the routine procedure.