Some, but not all, research suggests that more women recall events that happened under anesthesia than men do, and that women ...

Local anesthesia numbs a specific part of the body during minor procedures. The dose and type will depend on age and weight, and other factors. Learn more here.

For example, researchers can alter specific protein function and then determine whether this protein can be linked to sensitivity or resistance to anesthetic action in lower organisms.

The identification of specific binding sites for inhaled anesthetics on certain proteins is a dramatic departure from the classic view that all general anesthetics act nonspecifically.

Humanitarian workers and government officials working to deliver urgently needed aid for Gaza as disease and near-famine grip large parts of the coastal enclave say a clear pattern has emerged of ...

They acknowledged "low certainty" about, for example, intramuscular anesthetic injections and joint radiofrequency therapy for chronic axial pain, and about epidural injections of anesthetics or ...

Different anesthetics work in distinct ways. Local anesthetics, for example, work by preventing nerve cells from sending pain signals to the brain.

In adults over 70, exposure to general anesthesia and surgery is associated with a subtle decline in memory and thinking skills, according to new research. The study analyzed nearly 2,000 people ...

Nurses who are trained as anesthetists do not need a doctor's supervision to give anesthetics to California hospital patients, a state appeals court has ruled.

The mechanisms of anesthesia are surprisingly little understood. The present article summarizes current knowledge about the function of general anesthetics at different organization levels of the ...

For example, isoflurane, an inhaled anesthetic commonly used in veterinary medicine, has been shown to improve behavioral outcome in the controlled cortical impact (CCI) model of TBI in rats ...