DALLAS - Sept. 2, 2020 - As you drift into unconsciousness before a surgery, general anesthetic drugs flowing through your blood are putting you to sleep by binding mainly to a protein in the brain ...

General anesthesia makes you unconscious and pain-free during surgery, ensuring you don’t feel or remember anything while surgeons perform the procedure safely. General anesthesia is a procedure in ...

There are four types of medical anesthetics used by medical professionals, depending on what type of procedure you are having. Share on Pinterest Santi Nuñez/Stocksy United Anesthesia is used to ...

General anesthetics work by altering the activity of specific neurons in the brain. One main class of these drugs, which includes propofol and the ether-derivative sevoflurane, work primarily by ...

New research identified risk factors for postoperative migraine and compared the incidence of migraine following general or neuraxial anesthesia. A nation-wide study carried out in Taiwan found no ...

The question of anesthesia's impact on brain development has nagged the field for decades, with negative preclinical and animal model data but little conclusive evidence in humans. Young children ...

General anesthetics have a more widespread effect on the brain than inducing sleep, suggests a new study that could lead to improved drugs for use in surgery. Share on Pinterest Researchers now ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Since their anesthetic effects were discovered approximately 180 years ago, inhalational anesthetics have been used for general anesthesia in surgical operations. However, the mechanism of their ...

General anesthesia is a combination of medications that a person breathes through a mask or receives through a catheter in a vein to cause a person to fall asleep. In contrast, regional anesthesia is ...