Mother-of-four Helen Comin, 50, died after she was wrongly given a potent painkiller after a boob implant procedure at a ...

Before 1846, surgery was a crude and brutal undertaking, typically performed on conscious patients lashed to their beds. Then ...

General anesthesia is more commonly used for major operations and during surgery. A person may also experience amnesia temporarily following the anesthetic. General anesthetics have been widely ...

A 9-year-old San Diego girl died hours after a dental surgery. The medical examiner ruled it accidental, saying the death was ...

A WOMAN tragically died after being given too much local anaesthetic during hip surgery. Dr Rachel Gibson, 47, went into cardiac arrest and suffered irreversible brain damage following hip ...

Surgery is also called an operation. It is a procedure where a specialist doctor called a surgeon removes or repairs some of the tissue in your body. Normally you have an anaesthetic before you have ...

Children as young as 18 months are waiting a year for dental surgery to treat advanced tooth decay, a situation one paediatric dentist calls "alarming".

Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI) announced study findings supporting the use of its SedLine brain function monitoring in children.

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But if you need a major surgery and a regional anesthetic isn’t possible, you will need general anesthesia. Surgery with general anesthesia is relatively safe, although there are possible ...