Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to concerns about the effects that general anesthesia may have on newborns during ...

Based on: Conduction Anesthesia: Clinical studies of George P. Pitkin, M.D. Edited by James L. Southworth, M.D., and Robert A. Hingson, M.D. 4°, cloth, 981 pp., with ...

Mexico's Public Health Department said Thursday that a worrisome outbreak of 61 meningitis cases in the northern state of Durango this month was linked to anesthetic procedures used at local hospitals ...