Background: Induction of anaesthesia with anaesthetic gas might be a potential cause for cerebral impairment in the newborn and young infant. Near infrared spectroscopy - NIRS - is a continuous, ...

Is there any difference in postoperative morbidities for 24 h following dental care under day-stay general anaesthesia using sevoflurane or halothane in intellectually disabled children? Children were ...

K.A. is a 45-year-old man withacute pancreatitis who is brought to the operating room from the intensive care unit sedated and intubated for abdominal debridement. K.A. takes no medications and has no ...

Despite decades of common use for surgeries of all kinds, the precise mechanism through which general anesthesia works on the body remains a mystery. New research investigated the common anesthetic ...

OBJECTIVE: To characterize induction and recovery characteristics of 3 commonly used inhalant anesthetics in prairie rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis): isoflurane, sevoflurane, and desflurane. ANIMALS: ...

L.B. is a 20-year-old man presenting at an outpatient surgery center for a left inguinal hernia repair. His past medical history is significant for bronchial asthma yet he has never been hospitalized ...