What's the maximum recommended dose for lidocaine or mepivacaine during dental procedures? The answer remains unclear as guidelines published by dental organizations differ from those of manufacturers ...

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses plans to release an update to its 2007 Recommended Practices for Managing the Patient Receiving Local Anesthesia next year. Mary Ogg, MSN, RN, a ...

‌Local anesthesia numbs a part of your body so that your doctor can stitch up a wound or take a biopsy without you feeling any pain. Unlike general anesthesia, where you are put to sleep during a ...

A recent round of edits to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) interpretive guidelines has caught the attention of experts in the field for its focus on anesthesia guidelines. Any ...

The reversible and controlled induction of loss of motor and sensory function through the injection of local anesthetics into the epidural space is referred to as epidural anesthesia. This mode of ...

If you haven’t read part one of this two-part article, I suggest reading it now to glean the full scope of its message as it applies to part two. Comfort for the patient during dental procedures is ...

The localized loss of sensation with resultant reduction in pain stimuli is the end result of local anesthesia. This mode of anesthesia is considered to be safer than general anesthesia, because it ...