The “most dreaded” complication is fat embolism — a rare but life-threatening condition that strikes when fat enters the ...

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 ...

A Brazilian car influencer, Ricardo Godoi, has died in the middle of a procedure to receive a back tattoo. The news was announced on his Instagram account on Monday (January 20), where Godoi had more ...

The use of general anesthesia during cesarean deliveries is associated with an increased risk for postpartum depression (PPD) that necessitates hospitalization as well as a risk for suicidality, ...

The General Anesthesia versus Spinal anesthesia (GAS) trial took advantage of the fact that infants having hernia repair ...

Older adults undergoing hip fracture surgery experience similar incidences of cognitive decline whether they recieve regional or general anesthesia, with no significant difference in depression, ...

More people are getting tattoos under anesthesia — but “the risk is never zero,” an expert tells PEOPLE Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard ...

Imagine having ankle surgery without general anesthesia, watching the whole procedure in real time, then walking out of the procedure on that very ankle. That’s just what patient Bill Segraves of ...

Emily had a bad feeling about her Caesarian section before it started. The epidural had numbed her legs, but she could sense the catheter in her bladder, which seemed wrong to her as a labor and ...