Spine surgeon Peter Miller, MD, PhD, has performed minimally invasive surgery for years, and in recent years, he’s adopted an approach to support patients beyond the operating room. Dr. Miller, of ...

Heitor Medeiros, MD, and A. Sassan Sabouri , MD, of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital ...

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

The invention provides an improved product to assist when positioning and handling a patient. In doing so, it would be employed in place of standard gait belts. As a result, it increases safety ...

Giant inguinoscrotal hernias (GISH) have been defined as those that extend below the midpoint of the inner thigh when the patient is in the standing position. Its management represents a challenge due ...

With preoperative forced air warming, continuous monitoring, and aggressive intraoperative warming techniques, spinal anesthesia can be used in patients with CAD. Given a strict temperature management ...

may offer a more favorable risk-benefit ratio than general anesthesia (GA). Multicenter cohort study screening all thrombectomy patients prospectively enrolled in GSR-ET (German Stroke ...

A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. There is currently ...

However, four patients in China have taken life-changing steps toward reclaiming this ability after they received surgery featuring an innovative "brain-spinal interface" technology in Shanghai.

However, our study included quite a large consecutive cohort of unselected patients undergoing different anorectal operations. Overall current literature indicates that local anesthesia is safe and ...

Lumbosacral epidural anesthesia is indicated in surgeries caudal to the ... Among those related to the technique itself are patient position, puncture site, solution volume, local anesthetic ...