July 20 (UPI) --For people undergoing major surgery, new research suggests they may want to check on the anesthesiologist's workload before a procedure that will put them to sleep. That's because the ...

Techniques with regional anesthesia show better effectiveness for postoperative pain control, and opioid-free methods are ...

Older adults who avoid surgery because they fear general anesthesia will cause thinking declines need not worry, researchers report. A study of more than 1,000 patients who had heart surgery at four ...

A series published in Anesthesia & Analgesia, the first articles of which are published in the April 2011 issue of the journal, will discuss emerging strategies for identifying and managing patients ...

A new study examines whether the number of overlapping procedures managed by the anesthesiologist increases the risk of death or complications after surgery. Most major surgeries would not be possible ...