DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I have a hand issue that's affecting my work. I’ve heard some hand surgeries can be done in the clinic without anesthesia or an operating room. Can you tell me more about them?

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 ...

Doctors are investigating whether a simple prompt can make surgery more pleasant—and perhaps open the door to a new approach for trauma.

Anesthesia awareness is a rare but worrisome occurrence that can happen during a procedure where general anesthesia is used. The goal of general anesthesia is to put you into a form of reversible coma ...

In adults over 70, exposure to general anesthesia and surgery is associated with a subtle decline in memory and thinking skills, according to new research. The study analyzed nearly 2,000 people and ...

When Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus opened its Eye and Ear Institute surgery center over a decade ago, most of the anesthesia residency training still happened on the main ...