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 ...

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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 ...

A new type of test may be able to predict if people who enter a state of impaired consciousness after a brain injury will eventually recover. The test, which involves seeing how people’s brainwaves ...

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 ...