For the first time, a study indicates that the use of local anesthetic may affect tooth cell growth and the development of children's teeth. The study comes at a time when more children than ever ...

Is local infiltration of an abdominal wound with an anesthetic as effective as epidural anesthesia for the control of postoperative pain? The authors of this article combined the results of 9 ...

The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine has published a practice advisory on local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) called “Guidelines for the Management of Severe Local ...

Objective: To investigate the risks and benefits of the use of local anaesthetic in a descriptive case series from three professional football (rugby league and Australian football) teams. Methods: ...

Hate being left numb and drooling after visiting the dentist? A local anaesthetic that targets just pain-sensing neurons could make these trips less traumatic. Local anaesthetics such as lignocaine ...

Background: The effect on clinical safety of dampening articular mechanoreceptor feedback at the ankle is unknown. Injection of the ankle joint for pain control may result in such dampening. Athletes ...

Is it possible to have a face lift without a general anaesthetic? I would like a bit of lift around my jaw line, not the whole face, but I am scared of going under a general. I would like to find out ...

The study was a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial of mepivacaine (10 mL of 20 mg/mL) vs placebo (0.9 mg/mL sodium chloride) instilled into the uterus 2 minutes before IUD ...

It certainly is possible to have a modified face lift without a general anaesthetic. The very latest type of face-lift with minimal scars around the ear is called the MACS lift. It is designed for ...