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 ...

According to Germany’s Federal Health Reporting database, there were around 16 million surgeries in the country between 2010 and 2016. Data on whether general anesthesia or regional anesthesia was ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

A 9-year-old girl died hours after she went under anesthesia for a dental procedure at a San Diego office where a dentist had been investigated after a patient nearly died. The procedure took place ...

ASCs are already feeling the strain this fall as staffing challenges deepen beyond the well-documented nursing shortage.

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 ...