Anesthetic agents are commonly used for a variety of medical procedures in infants and children, but little is known about their effects on the developing brain. A growing body of data from studies in ...

FOR the past few centuries, curare has been dismissed lightly as being synonymous with the generic name of several arrow poisons of certain South American Indians, but investigation of its ...

New research supports earlier findings that indicate that anesthesia is no more hazardous for the brain at higher doses than at lower doses. General anesthesia makes it possible for millions of ...

Anesthesia & Analgesia exists for the benefit of current and future patients under the care of health care professionals engaged in the disciplines broadly related to anesthesiology: perioperative ...

A recent neuropsychological evaluation diagnosis impugned several controversial theories about anesthesia and cognitive decline. As a medicinal therapy to relieve pain and brain dysfunction, ...

The 19th-century pioneers of anesthesia were regarded by the doctors whose blood-and-sawdust surgeries they were attempting to transform as unscrupulous opportunists who advertised their wares by ...

Anesthesia has played an integral role in medicine since the first successful surgical procedure was performed with anesthesia in 1846. However, the exact way anesthesia affects the brain is still not ...