In patients undergoing hip replacement surgery, using a special wound catheter to infuse local anesthetic directly into the hip joint provides significant and lasting improvements in postoperative ...

Continuous peripheral nerve block has been shown to be superior to traditional opioid-based analgesia in terms of improved analgesia with reduced sedation, nausea, pruritis, and hospital stay. Because ...

Feb. 8, 2005 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two specialty syringes that allow simultaneous injection and aspiration of tissues or fluids; a longer soaker catheter for ...

Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 2, 2007 - Children recovering from orthopaedic surgery feel less pain and leave the hospital sooner when they go home with a small pouch that delivers local anesthetic agents ...

Aug. 19, 2005 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a shockwave device for the noninvasive treatment of chronic plantar fasciitis; an local anesthetic infusion pump to decrease ...

University of Utah Health’s Vascular Access (PICC) Team is a team of health care professionals specially trained in vascular access—or putting catheters inside your blood vessels so your body can get ...

A team of cardiologists at the University Hospital of Navarre, in collaboration with the Area of Cell Therapy at the same centre, and with the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, have carried out ...