This retrospective study was conducted to evaluate the safety and complications profile of general anaesthesia (GA) compared with that of regional anaesthesia (RA) for BM harvesting (BMH). The study ...

Dr Hemant Shinde tells what a patient should know before undergoing a surgery and what the complications of general anaesthesia are. Rajesh was a fit 25-year-old, but when he suffered from blinding ...

Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it’s likely at some point in our lives we’ll have to undergo a procedure that needs general anaesthesia. Even though it is ...

Anaesthesia has been one of the greatest gifts of science and use of general anaesthesia is a routine part of surgical operations at hospitals and medical facilities around the world. However precise ...

Michael Vagg does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

For neurons to communicate, proteins have to get involved. One of the jobs these proteins have is to get neurons to release molecules called neurotransmitters. These chemical messengers are what gets ...

The need to reduce pollution emissions in the operating room and to reduce treatment costs motivates more frequent use of general anaesthesia with a small or minimal fresh gas flow rate. Nevertheless, ...

Exposure to general anaesthestic up to age four raises the risk of poor child development and reduced literacy and numeracy as measured by school tests, new research reveals. The new finding published ...

Chief Executive Officer of the Ambulance Service, Professor Ahmed Nuhu Zakaria, has revealed that a Ministry of Health constituted committee had found that the late Augustina Awotwi, the lady who died ...

For the second time in two successive months, administration of anaesthesia has led to complications in patients in city hospitals. BANGALORE: For the second time in two successive months, ...

Over 1kg of plastic waste is generated per anaesthesia procedure, an audit of surgical patients in a burns unit in Spain has revealed. Plastic wrappers are the most common item of waste, ...