But how exactly? We don't know every detail about what's going on when we administer anesthesia, but then again, we also don't know exactly how consciousness works either. Following is a ...

It all happens in a nanosecond. Although research has come a long way, we still don’t know much about how anesthesia works. What we do know is that certain types of anesthetics—there are ...

General anesthetics work by altering the activity of specific neurons in the brain. One main class of these drugs, which includes propofol and the ether-derivative sevoflurane, work primarily by ...

Even though it is one of the safest medical practices, we still don't have a complete, thorough understanding of precisely how anesthetic drugs work in the brain. In fact, it has largely remained ...

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Anesthesia remains a dynamic industry as leaders explore new methods of opioid-free pain management and expand into new care settings. Christina Menor, MD, president-elect of the California Society of ...

The study was approved for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Phase 2 protocol. According to Ciancio, dentists have several concerns when administering injectable anesthesia that include but are not ...