The FDA has released a warning about the use of general anesthetic and sedation drugs in children and pregnant women. 1. The FDA safety announcement warns that recent studies suggest repeated or ...

Pharmaceutical company Avenacy has launched Propofol injectable emulsion, USP, in the U.S. to be used for intravenous general anesthetic and sedation. The drug has been approved by the FDA as a ...

Researchers have figured out how a commonly used general anesthetic drug induces unconsciousness by causing brain activity to become increasingly unstable. The findings could lead to better anesthetic ...

FDA issues a warning for anesthesia use in children and pregnant women The FDA warns against the repeated or prolonged use of anesthesia in pregnant women and in children younger than 3 years of age.

Survival after a general anaesthetic and within 48 hours of surgery has greatly improved worldwide over the past 50 years, according to the second Article in The Lancet surgery-themed issue. The paper ...

Women from ethnic minority backgrounds in the UK have different patterns of anaesthesia given during childbirth than do White women, according to a new study based on routinely collected national ...