Awake spine surgery uses local anaesthesia and light sedation, reducing risks and side effects of general anaesthesia, ...

The spinal surgery David B. underwent in November wasn't his first – but it was the first time he was awake for a procedure. "At first I thought 'Do I really want to be awake for this?'" said David.

Visakhapatnam: A 25-year-old woman from Visakhapatnam has undergone a complex brain tumour removal surgery while remaining ...

Wide awake local anaesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT) has emerged as a transformative approach in hand surgery, combining local infiltration of lidocaine and epinephrine to achieve both anaesthesia and ...

The wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet technique achieved a 100% rate of success in patients undergoing endoscopic carpal tunnel release compared with a rate of success below 90% with ...

The outcome of deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for Parkinson disease (PD) is comparable when performed under general or local anesthesia, results of a new randomized trial show. Investigators ...

If you want surgery and don't qualify for general anesthesia, or just have fears about general anesthesia, there's one doctor you can rely on and that's Dr. Meegan Gruber. Dr. Gruber has been a ...