While doctors have significantly refined their techniques over the subsequent 150 years— ether made patients throw up and was flammable enough to cause mid-surgery explosions —there are still ...

Marijuana users need higher doses of common sedatives like propofol to stay under during procedures. The problem presents a ...

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 ...

As surgical volumes increase amid an aging population and higher demand for outpatient services, anesthesia providers have found themselves in a sellers market as ASCs and other facilities vie for a ...

RIVANNA®, developers of world-first imaging-based medical technologies, today announced it has been named a finalist in MedTech Innovator's (MTI) 2025 Early-Stage Grand Prize competition. The ...