There are no differences in the safety or effectiveness of the two most common types of anesthetic (spinal versus general anesthesia) in patients undergoing hip fracture surgery, according to the findings of a new study led ...
Sep 28, 2022
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A Dutch-German research team examined warning signs for chronification of pain after surgery. The most important risk factors were found to be skeletal surgery, preoperative opioid use, pain lasting two weeks after surgery ...
Jun 29, 2022
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Fentanyl, a mu-opioid receptor agonist, is one of the most commonly used analgesics in hospitals, and may induce long-lasting behavioral and somatosensory impairment in rodents. However, whether the use of fentanyl is associated ...
Jun 14, 2022
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Almost two-thirds (64%) of intensive care staff may have experienced a mental health disorder during the COVID-19 winter surge last year, according to a new study led by researchers from UCL and King's College London.
May 25, 2022
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An international study has found around 1 in 10 participants under planned general anesthesia were able to respond to commands. Importantly no subjects remembered the commands after surgery. Researchers say the study sheds ...
May 24, 2022
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Injured women are half as likely as men to receive the life-saving drug tranexamic acid (TXA) even though the treatment is equally effective regardless of sex, according to new research in the British Journal of Anaesthesia.
May 19, 2022
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Engineering researchers from the University of Warwick, and their team of international experts from the UK, US and Ireland, are the first to use computational modeling to compare the effectiveness of conventional oxygen ...
Apr 21, 2022
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Patients who are most likely to suffer severe pain following an operation can be reliably identified using a new technique developed at the University of Birmingham.
Apr 5, 2022
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Essential new guidelines to design mechanical ventilators that can work in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been proposed.
Feb 10, 2022
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After being anesthetized and undergoing major surgery, up to one in five patients have increased levels of the protein troponin in their blood. This can be a sign of heart damage. Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden ...
Dec 14, 2021
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