A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine recently found that different anesthetic drugs create different patterns in the brain, a discovery that may be an important step to understanding how anesthesia actually works, according to an NPR…
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Ellison "Jeep" C. Pierce Jr., MD, a Boston-based anesthesiologist who played a significant role in reducing the rate of anesthesia-related fatalities, has died at age 82, according to a Boston Globe report.
Terrence P. Murphy, MD, a cosmetic surgeon in Denver, is questioning some cosmetic surgeons' use of "awake surgery," involving high doses of local anesthesia without sedation, according to a release by Murphy Plastic Surgery.
A secure clinical event reporting system linked to an anesthesia information management system captured almost twice the number of adverse events as usual, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Dreaming is almost five times more common with propofol infusion than with midazolam in patients receiving spinal anesthesia with deep sedation, according to a study published in the April 2011 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.
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Heat shock protein 72 overexpression could prevent the development of post-operative memory loss, according to a study published in the April 2011 issue of Anesthesiology.
Cardiothoracic anesthesiologists from Vanderbilt University Medical Center are pioneering the use of a smaller ultrasound probe that monitors cardiac function of critically ill patients in intensive care units, according to a Health Canal report.
Researchers and clinicians at Medical City Dallas Hospital in Texas say there may be hope for patients with heart problems who were once considered "inoperable" because of age or frailty, according to a WFAA report.
Zeev Kain, MD, a UC Irvine anesthesiologist, will use a $3.2 million National Institutes of Health grant to research pain and anxiety in pediatric patients before and after surgery, according to a Health Canal report.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists is conducting a nationwide survey on anesthesia drug shortages, according to an ASA release.