Heitor Medeiros, MD, and A. Sassan Sabouri, MD, of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, are the lead and corresponding authors, respectively ...

Millions of patients undergo surgery each year with the help of anaesthesia. An expert explains how anaesthesia prevents pain ...

Spinal anesthesia doesn’t cause or worsen restless leg syndrome, according to a new study published as a letter to the editor in the Nov. 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The study ...

Several types of back surgery can help reduce back pain. Common procedures include spinal fusion, discectomy, and disk replacement. Recovery times may depend on the extent of the procedure. Share on ...

As spine surgery steadily moves toward outpatient settings, the limiting factors are no longer primarily clinical. Advances in surgical technique, anesthesia and pain management have made far more ...

Awake spine surgery has largely been limited to shorter, simpler procedures, but Stanley Hoang, MD, of Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport, La., has leveraged the technique in new ways. Dr. Hoang, who ...