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 ...

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 ...

A new study published in the Feb. 2012 issue of Anesthesiology found that the type of lipid emulsion used to reverse toxicity of local anesthetics may change the effectiveness of the reversal, ...