Cough medicines containing the chemical pholcodine should be banned due to the risk of potentially deadly allergic reactions in people under general anaesthetic, the European Union's drug regulator ...

Discover a study on perioperative hypothermia in older urology patients, comparing remimazolam and sevoflurane for better ...

New research has highlighted the value of recycling general anaesthetic used in routine operations.In the UK, healthcare accounts for more than five per cent of national greenhouse gas emissions, and ...

A new understanding of the complex ways in which general anesthetics act on the brain could eventually lead to improved drugs for surgery. It remains unclear how general anesthesia works, even though ...

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DENTAL experts have developed a new sedation procedure which could relieve pressure on hospitals and allow patients to avoid potentially risky general anaesthetics. Clinical trials on more than 600 ...

Survival after a general anaesthetic and within 48 hours of surgery has greatly improved worldwide over the past 50 years, according to the second Article in The Lancet surgery-themed issue. The paper ...

Switching from general to regional anaesthesia may help cut greenhouse emissions and ultimately help reduce global warming, indicates a real life example at one US hospital over the course of a year.

ANAESTHETICS leave people groggy, but a dose of Ritalin could wake them up. Anaesthetised rats injected with the drug, which is used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, ...

NHS patients have slammed a controversial electrical "shock therapy" treatment after a new study, which is about to be published in the scientific journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, ...