Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Birkbeck, University of London, have identified a site where a commonly used anesthetic binds to sodium ion channels, revealing a molecular mechanism that may ...
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JIANGYIN, CHINA—According to a Live Science report, traces of an anesthetic have been detected on a pair of iron scissors and tweezers recovered from the 600-year-old tomb of Xia Quan in eastern China ...
Microscopic analysis of residues on surgical scissors and tweezers from a 1348–1411 CE tomb in Jiangyin, China, finds the first evidence for the controlled application of a highly toxic chemical as ...
The anesthesiology community is concerned by severe and unexpected episodes of sensitivity to volatile general anesthetics (particularly sevoflurane) in patients of Venezuelan maternal lineage — ...
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Anesthetics remain safe, but they are not universally effective. Sex, genetics, body composition, and brain function influence how anesthetics are metabolized and tolerated, so the challenge lies in ...
For decades, hospitals have relied on desflurane, a popular anesthetic, to put patients to sleep on the operating table. But the chemical is a potent greenhouse gas, so regulators, health systems and ...
The anesthesia workforce shortage is nothing new in healthcare — especially not for ASC leaders, who have cited the ongoing crisis as one of their top concerns in the year ahead. There are, however, ...
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 ...
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