Total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) enables earlier intraoperative monitoring of facial nerve activity than sevoflurane anesthesia during ear surgery, with reduced patient-ventilator dyssynchrony and ...

When it comes to surgical recovery, controlling inflammation is key. Anesthetic choices play a surprisingly important role in this process, with potential implications for healing, infection ...

In patients undergoing cancer surgery, it is ambiguous whether propofol-based total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) elicits a significantly higher overall survival rate than volatile anesthetics (VA).

Older patients who received anesthesia with etomidate had no higher risk of major complications after elective abdominal surgery compared to propofol, a randomized trial found. Among 1,917 such ...

There are many advantages to using local anesthesia with IV sedation during minimally invasive spinal procedures. Agnes P. Green, MD, a board certified anesthesiologist at The Bonati Spine Institute ...

General anesthesia is medicine you get before surgeries that require you to be in a deep sleep-like state. It is given in stages – just before the surgery begins and then throughout the surgery to ...

Etomidate fared well against propofol in a test conducted in China involving patients aged 65 to 80 years who were scheduled for major abdominal surgery, suggesting etomidate may be another agent to ...

In spite of the widespread performance of weight reduction (bariatric) surgeries and complexity of management of the morbidly obese patients, there is little published information regarding the ...

General anesthesia and surgery could speed up cognitive decline and prompt the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study of 11 patients presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the ...