In 2014, one of my now-retired colleagues, Lyle Sorensen, said to then 57-year-old Seattle resident Mary Lou Hanske, “You definitely needed a new knee,” when she was in the recovery room following ...

As total knee arthroplasty incidence rates increase, anesthesiologists have refined the related anesthesia and analgesia techniques, according to a study published in Local and Regional Anesthesia.

A new study from the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York found regional anesthesia reduces the need for blood transfusions more than general anesthesia for patients undergoing a bilateral total ...

A new study found patients receiving undergoing a total hip or knee replacement incurred a higher incidence of surgical site infections when they received general anesthesia for the procedure over the ...

Two types of regional anesthesia do not make patients more prone to falls in the first days after having knee replacement surgery as some have previously suggested, according to a study based on ...

General anesthesia is a combination of medications that a person breathes through a mask or receives through a catheter in a vein to cause a person to fall asleep. In contrast, regional anesthesia is ...