News tagged with anesthetic drugs
Research discovers how brain activity changes when anesthesia induces unconsciousness
Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have identified for the first time a pattern of brain activity that appears to signal exactly when patients ...
Neuroscience
Nov 05, 2012 |
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Primitive consciousness emerges first as you awaken from anesthesia
Awakening from anesthesia is often associated with an initial phase of delirious struggle before the full restoration of awareness and orientation to one's surroundings. Scientists now know why this may occur: ...
Neuroscience
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Surgery has a more profound effect than anesthesia on brain pathology and cognition in Alzheimer's animal model
(Medical Xpress)—A syndrome called "post-operative cognitive decline" has been coined to refer to the commonly reported loss of cognitive abilities, usually in older adults, in the days to weeks after surgery. ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Sep 14, 2012 |
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Scientists create method to personalize chemotherapy drug selection
In laboratory studies, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a way to personalize chemotherapy drug selection for cancer patients by using cell lines created from their own tumors.
Cancer
Feb 14, 2013 |
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Three factors could point to your fate after surgery
Duke University Medical Center researchers have verified data that suggest three medical factors appear to correlate with mortality for a patient who has been under anesthesia for an operation.
Other
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Neuroinflammation may be behind general-anesthesia-associated learning disabilities
Several studies have found evidence that children who undergo repeated surgical operations with general anesthesia before the age of 4 may be at an increased risk for learning disabilities. In the March issue of Anesthesiology, Massac ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 24, 2013 |
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Teething baby? Avoid benzocaine, FDA says
(HealthDay) -- Parents should not use benzocaine products to relieve teething pain in babies except under the advice and supervision of a health care professional, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.
Medications
Jul 29, 2012 |
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Fear in US as drug shortages mount
Shortages of vital drugs, particularly cancer-fighting medication, have raised concerns in the United States, where regulators often have to race to try to find replacements.
Medications
Sep 04, 2011 |
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New effort to reduce drug shortages a small step
(AP) -- Unprecedented drug shortages are threatening the lives of cancer patients and other seriously ill people, and the Obama administration's plan to tackle them is but a small step toward solving a complex ...
Medications
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Anesthesia drugs really do put us to sleep
When patients are put under anesthesia, they are often told they will be "put to sleep," and now it appears that in some ways that's exactly what the drugs do to the brain. New evidence in mice reported online on October ...
Medications
Oct 25, 2012 |
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Study shows different anesthetics affects sleep cycles in different ways
(Medical Xpress) -- In the ongoing quest to find the exact way that anesthetics interact with the central nervous system, anesthesiology researchers have been examining whether the state induced by anesthetics resembles natural ...
Sleep apnea
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Recovery from propofol anesthesia may be sped by use of common stimulant
The ability of the commonly used stimulant methylphenidate (Ritalin) to speed recovery from general anesthesia appears to apply both to the inhaled gas isoflurane, as previously reported, and to the intravenous drug propofol. ...
Medical research
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Device no better than cheaper alternatives for preventing intraoperative awareness
Anesthesiology researchers have shown that a device approved by the Food and Drug Administration to reduce the risk that patients will recall their surgery does not lower the risk of the problem, known as intraoperative awareness, ...
Other
Aug 17, 2011 |
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US state turns to different lethal injection drug
After surrendering its supply of a lethal injection drug to federal agents in 2011, Arkansas turned to a somewhat surprising place to look for another drug: a list from lawyers for several death row inmates.
Other
Apr 20, 2013 |
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Study shows rising rate of propofol abuse by health care professionals
Abuse of the anesthesia drug propofol is a "rapidly progressive form of substance dependence" that is being more commonly seen among health care professionals, reports a study in the April Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. ...
Addiction
Mar 18, 2013 |
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