BOSTON — Use of spinal anesthesia instead of general anesthesia for spine surgery improved patient recovery and reduced costs by nearly 10%, according to the results of a single-institution study ...

Nov. 20 -- WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Spinal anesthesia won't cause or worsen restless legs syndrome. That's the conclusion of a new study published as a letter to the editor in the Nov.

A 26 year-old woman with relapsing-remitting MS since the age of 17 has numerous lesions on brain MRI, none active. She has no disability. She is now pregnant and planning for labor and delivery. Is ...

The question of whether an epidural or spinal is advisable after spinal surgery does not appear to have been studied systematically. What we know and how we practice is based on case reports, most of ...

Another and important means of prevention of neurologic disease after spinal anesthesia involves the proper selection of patients. Afflictions of the central nervous system and spinal column are ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with bupivacaine, patients who had ropivacaine had superior ambulation time and distance, quicker ...

As spine surgery steadily moves toward outpatient settings, the limiting factors are no longer primarily clinical. Advances in surgical technique, anesthesia and pain management have made far more ...

Awake spine surgery has largely been limited to shorter, simpler procedures, but Stanley Hoang, MD, of Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport, La., has leveraged the technique in new ways. Dr. Hoang, who ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with bupivacaine spinal anesthesia, mepivacaine allowed for faster same-day discharge from an ASC with ...