When one trains to become a physician, there is a first time for everything - the first scary day in anatomy lab, the first physical exam, the first IV. My most memorable first was the time I poked a ...

Q I am going to have an operation on my right hip, and my doctor spoke to me about spinal anaesthetic. What is the difference between a general and a spinal anaesthetic? A A general anaesthetic is ...

Doctors use blood patch procedures to treat spinal headaches, rare events that may happen after epidurals or other medical procedures involving the spine. In a blood patch your own blood is injected ...

Functional anesthetic discography (FAD), a new diagnostic procedure involving injecting anesthetic directly into a spinal disc, can be used to confirm the presence of injured discs as the source of a ...

Background: Paralysis of abducens nerve is a very rare complication of lumbar puncture, which is a common procedure most often used for diagnostic and anesthetic purposes. Case Report: A 38-year-old ...

The advantages of a spinal anaesthetic over a general one are that there is a lower risk of infection after surgery, less effect on the lungs and breathing, good pain relief immediately after surgery, ...