Medically reviewed by Jenny A. Dhingra, MD Local anesthesia involves using medications (local anesthetics) to numb an area of your body. It's used to prevent pain during and after surgery or other ...

Few drugs are as frequently used as local anesthetics, and few have more predictable effects. Their wide usage stems from the apparent ease of administration, their therapeutic effect in relieving ...

Two orthopedic surgery professors are working to advance a formulation of local anesthesia to help minimize the usage of ...

Anesthesia options: The main types of anesthesia are general anesthesia, sedation and regional or local anesthesia. The most ...

Local anesthesia, administered by cream or needle ... The protagonist has about 20 minutes from injection time until complete muscular shutdown, but Bhatt says these blocking agents can take ...

A panel of dermatologists and plastic surgeons created a consensus statement on the use of intralesional corticosteroids in patients with keloids.

What we do know is that certain types of anesthetics—there are several—function differently. Local and regional anesthesia are usually injected into a group of nerves in a specific part of the ...

About 4 in 10 dental patients experience transient bradycardia or lower heart rates, which may lead to heart failure and cardiac arrest, while being administered local anesthesia under sedation. The ...

Intravascular injection is also a possibility, one that demands careful application of the local anesthetic. Pauli said expansion of the technique to other surgical procedures is possible.

Most commonly, we use it to enhance the duration of local anesthesia, decrease systemic absorption, and minimize bleeding by vasoconstriction. This allows for more extended and controlled procedures ...

Michael Singer, MD, shared insights from on his experience using a preservative-free, chloroprocaine ophthalmic gel as ...