Paralytic drugs, or neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs), are powerful muscle relaxants used to prevent muscle movement during surgical procedures. They're also used during critical care, such as ...

Imagine waking up from surgery feeling refreshed, with minimal side effects. Many hospitals across the U.S. are making that a reality by phasing out problematic anesthesia options, that also happen to ...

(BOSTON) — Currently, no anesthetic compound or cocktail can be used safely outside of a hospital facility. This is because current drugs impair the brain and central nervous system’s ability to ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "United States Anesthesia Drugs Market by Type by General Inhalation by General Intravenous by Local, and Company Analysis 2025 to 2033" report has been added to ...

Repeated exposure to a common anesthesia drug early in life results in visual recognition memory impairment, which emerges after the first year of life and may persist long-term, according to a study ...

General anesthesia — the enabler of modern surgery and medical intervention — is one of the great triumphs of the scientific method. Ether, the compound from which almost all modern anesthetics are ...

In broad estimates, anesthesia-related mortality today is often cited around one in 100,000 to one in 200,000 cases. And for healthy patients undergoing routine procedures, some sources like the ...

There are many drugs that anesthesiologists can use to induce unconsciousness in patients. Exactly how these drugs cause the brain to lose consciousness has been a longstanding question, but MIT ...

Commonly used local anesthetic benzocaine may fit more easily into a cell’s membrane when the membrane is composed of compounds that carry a negative charge, according to a study published in the ...