Chief among these new approaches is nerve block anesthesia. Using ultrasound, doctors identify the location of nerves in the affected region.

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Anesthesia technique may reduce breast cancer recurrence, death Date: October 15, 2013 Source: American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Summary: Breast cancer patients who received the ...

Spinal anesthesia, used for doing cesarean section, is also a type of nerve block. Two kinds of local anesthetic drugs are used nowadays.

Nerve block anesthesia is gaining popularity as a safer alternative to general anesthesia, according to MedCity News. Nerve blocks, which interrupt and prevent chemical signals of pain from reaching ...

B. Braun Medical has announced the publication of a first-of-its-kind educational guide, Dual Guidance A Multimodal Approach to Nerve Location. The company also announced it has achieved “Best in KLAS ...

The degree to which combined intravenous Pentothal Sodium and local nerve block has become in our hands the anesthetic of choice for general surgery (excluding its orthopedic branch) is indicated ...

Nerve blocks, which interrupt and prevent chemical signals of pain from reaching nerves in a specific area, are being successfully performed for arm and leg procedures, as well as breast cancer ...

Scientists don't actually know why general anesthesia works—though some scientists in Australia think they might be one step closer to the answer. We do know the basics: breathe in, get knocked out.

Physiology of traumatic reflexes and respiration during surgical anesthesia: observations made under pentothal and local nerve block. California Med. 65:212–217, 1946.