Medically reviewed by Jenny A. Dhingra, MD Local anesthesia involves using medications (local anesthetics) to numb an area of your body. It's used to prevent pain during and after surgery or other ...

There is a real need in the treatment of postoperative pain and in the management of problems of intractable pain for local anesthetics with a duration of action longer than six to eight hours ...

Opioid-free surgery can address both physical and emotional well-being through effective anesthesia and complementary ...

Local anesthetics such as lidocaine block pain effectively, but they also impair motor and autonomic functions by indiscriminately blocking sodium channels in all neurons. Binshtok et al.

Sedation anesthesia is used for minimally invasive surgeries (like broken bone repair or to diagnose abdominal issues ). It involves light or moderate sedation via an IV so that the patient breathes ...

performed a single-blind, randomized, prospective study to investigate whether topical lidocaine application by means of a lollipop could provide efficacious local anesthesia. Fifty patients ...

"Personally, I would not talk anybody out of anything," she said. "If somebody had a huge abscess, a cracked tooth, or needed to have a tooth extracted, I would certainly attempt to talk them out of ...