There is an assumption that things used routinely are understood, and it does not hold in general. A great many effective interventions were established empirically — somebody noticed that something ...

General anesthesia is a medication you get before surgeries that requires you to be in a deep sleep-like state. It is given in stages – just before the surgery begins and then throughout the surgery ...

Dying patients who are in pain are usually given an analgesic, such as morphine, to ease their final hours and days. And if an analgesic isn’t enough, they can be given a sedative – something to make ...

Australians are headed to Bali to wake up fully tattooed after a single hospital session, but doctors warn the procedure ...

Newswise — An international study has found around 1 in 10 participants under planned general anaesthesia were able to respond to commands. Importantly no subjects remembered the commands after ...

A single hour of general anaesthesia in early infancy—longer than is necessary to perform the most common types of minor surgeries in childhood—does not result in measurable neurodevelopmental or ...

Being asked to stop eating or drinking before surgery can be uncomfortable, especially if the procedure is scheduled early in the morning. However, this instruction is not simply a routine hospital ...

New research from north-west England published in Anaesthesia (a journal of the Association of Anaesthetists) shows that during the first wave of COVID-19, the proportion of caesarean section ...

Making the decision to operate on a baby or toddler can be complex and confronting for parents. It involves weighing the risks versus the expected benefits for the child. One of the questions ...