True IgE-mediated local anesthetic hypersensitivity is <1% of reported reactions, so risk reduction should prioritize preservative-free amide selection, minimal effective dosing, and strict avoidance ...

Prostate Biopsy Findings. PROSTATE biopsy under local anesthesia showed similar safety and detection outcomes, with better comfort trends for transperineal sampling. A retrospecti ...

A local anaesthetic ultrasound-guided transperineal (LATP) prostate biopsy has advantages over transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided biopsy, with improved magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided ...

Over the last decade, poisonings and deaths linked to the use of local anesthetics have decreased. Even so, poisonings from one commonly used anesthetic, lidocaine, have increased in the United States ...

All current local anesthetics block sensory signals—pain—but they also interrupt motor signals, which can be problematic. For example, too much epidural anesthesia can prevent mothers in labor from ...

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About 10% to 15% of the adult western population have gallstones. Between 1% and 4% become symptomatic each year. Removal of the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) is the mainstay treatment for symptomatic ...

With this Cochrane Review we tried to find out the best way to get children to accept receiving an injection of local anaesthetic during dental treatment. It is important that children and adolescents ...

Prostate cancer diagnosis requires biopsy, traditionally performed under local anaesthetic with ultrasound guidance via a transrectal approach (TRUS). Local anaesthetic ultrasound-guided transperineal ...

As my dentist loomed above me with a gigantic syringe full of anesthetic, it didn’t seem like the right time to ask what precisely he was injecting into my gums. But that last trip to the dentist for ...

Low-dose dexamethasone mixed with local anesthetic was found to be the optimal injectate for use in interlaminar epidural steroid injections for the management of lumbar radiculopathy. Interlaminar ...