Objective: To investigate the risks and benefits of the use of local anaesthetic in a descriptive case series from three professional football (rugby league and Australian football) teams. Methods: ...

The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine has published a practice advisory on local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) called “Guidelines for the Management of Severe Local ...

A single ultrasound-guided intra-articular hip injection of corticosteroid plus local anaesthetic can provide lasting pain relief in hip osteoarthritis, according to a new study led by researchers ...

The study was a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial of mepivacaine (10 mL of 20 mg/mL) vs placebo (0.9 mg/mL sodium chloride) instilled into the uterus 2 minutes before IUD ...

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Is it possible to have a face lift without a general anaesthetic? I would like a bit of lift around my jaw line, not the whole face, but I am scared of going under a general. I would like to find out ...