Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...

Between two types of local anesthetics, there are 132 in short supply and 13 available, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Twenty bupivacaine injections from Pfizer are ...

Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from ...

Poisonings and deaths linked to use of local anesthetics decreased over the last decade, but poisonings from lidocaine increased.

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Anesthesia is a type of medication that prevents people from feeling pain during or following surgery. There are four main categories of anesthesia: local, regional, general, and sedation. Share on ...

Two new studies conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago found that poisonings from lidocaine have increased over the last 10 years, despite a general decline in poisonings and ...