Healio

Wide-awake hand surgery may be safe, yield high patient satisfaction

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among 1,011 patients undergoing wide-awake hand surgery, 4.3% of patients had superficial skin infections and no ...
Healio

How can a surgeon optimize the patient experience during WALANT hand surgery?

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The patient experience has always been at the heart of surgical practice. Before the advent of modern anesthesia ...
UPI

Study: High-dose general anesthesia doesn't raise risk of delirium after surgery

Older adults who avoid surgery because they fear general anesthesia will cause thinking declines need not worry, researchers report. A study of more than 1,000 patients who had heart surgery at four ...
News Medical

Infant neurodevelopment not affected by brief inhaled anesthesia during surgery

Preliminary findings from a new clinical trial show no adverse neurodevelopmental effects after brief inhaled anesthesia and surgery in infants and young children, reports the Online First edition of ...

General anesthesia during clot-removal surgery leads to better neurological outcomes at 3 months

Patients who undergo general anesthesia while receiving a specialized surgery to treat strokes have better outcomes than ...