Spinal anesthesia was developed in the latter part of the last century when the German physicians Bier and Hildebrandt injected cocaine into their own cerebrospinal fluids. They experienced varying ...

A Jacksonville law firm filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Naval Hospital Jacksonville, claiming the facility covered up a medical mistake by leaving three centimeters of a broken needle ...

The type of needle used in certain kinds of anesthesia is not linked to post-dural puncture headache (PDPH), a serious and potentially life-threatening complication, according to a recent study. The ...

As if the pain of labor isn't bad enough, a mom who has been experiencing constant back pain for over a decade just found out that the cause is a 3-centimeter long, broken anesthesia needle lodged in ...

Another and important means of prevention of neurologic disease after spinal anesthesia involves the proper selection of patients. Afflictions of the central nervous system and spinal column are ...

THE relief of pain during childbirth has been since time immemorial a subject of discussion and controversy. At first the differences of opinion were based on biblical interpretations. Snow's use of ...