Not too much and not too little: the dosage of drugs must be optimally adjusted for general anesthesia. This is no easy task, ...

A consensus statement from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement recommends patients should ...

investigations into alternative drug delivery methods have explored the subcutaneous administration of alfaxalone in guinea pigs. Results indicate that, whether used alone or alongside adjuvant ...

Administration of multiple doses by i.v. injection or a continuous i.v. infusion can result in drug accumulation and delays in recovery from anesthesia. The higher cost of i.v. therapy compared ...

The FDA has approved ketamine for general anesthesia only, but the drug has some off-label uses. Details are below. Status epilepticus is when a person has a seizure that lasts longer than 5 ...

An adjuvant analgesic ... and the intravenous drug pamidronate. N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists are injectable anesthetics that can help alleviate pain from cancer (especially in ...

The location of this minimum within the membrane suggests that anesthetics partition to the membrane prior to binding their ion channel targets, giving context to the Meyer–Overton correlation.

New guidelines from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement advise patients using GLP-1 medications for weight loss to fast for a longer period of time preoperatively, ...

Neuraxial anesthesia is associated with significantly reduced odds of several major postoperative complications in patients undergoing hip fracture procedures, according to research presented at the ...

The first-in-class antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) pivekimab sunirine (PVEK) demonstrated promising efficacy and high response ...