General anesthesia hijacks sleep circuitry to knock you out
After 170 years, nobody was quite sure where anesthesia worked on the brain
After 170 years, nobody was quite sure where anesthesia worked on the brain
BOSTON – Patients significantly overestimate the anticipated amount of pain they’ll experience following surgery, which researchers say can cause unnecessary anxiety in patients, according to a study being… read more.
New research presented at Euroanaesthesia 2016 (London 27-30 May) shows that patients undergoing breast cancer surgery need less painkilling medication post-surgery if they have anaesthesia that is free… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: A single exposure to general anesthesia does not lead to a cognitive risk in healthy children under age three, researchers reported On June 7, 2016… read more.
A technique to increase the flow of blood from the umbilical cord into the infant’s circulatory system improves blood pressure and red blood cell levels in preterm infants… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: A study of the protective effect of heart medications that patients receive before coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery suggests that statins reduce the risk… read more.
New research suggests that sedating patients before a nerve block needed to diagnose or treat chronic pain increases costs, risks and unnecessary surgeries, and sedation does nothing to… read more.
Findings also show that patients report pain relief even when they know they are receiving a placebo.
In fibromyalgia patients undergoing knee or hip replacement surgery, low-dose, intraoperative ketamine appeared to reduce the need for post-surgical opioid therapy, researchers said.
Abuse of common anesthetic has ‘rapid downhill course’, reports Journal of Addiction Medicine. Abuse of the anaesthesia drug propofol is a “rapidly progressive form of substance dependence” that… read more.
Liposomes packed with local anesthetic could block the nerve signals that reprogram pain centers and cause chronic, debilitating pain.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report the discovery a potential method to delay the onset of neuropathic pain.
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