When patients are put under anesthesia, they are often told they will be "put to sleep," and now it appears that in some ways that's exactly what the drugs do to the brain. New evidence in mice ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Schwartz, MD Paralytic drugs, or neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs), are powerful muscle relaxants used to prevent muscle movement during surgical procedures ...

Cartoon Distraction Alleviates Anxiety in Children During Induction of Anesthesia. Anesthesia & Analgesia , 2012; 115 (5): 1168 DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31824fb469 Cite This Page : ...

What Are Types of Local Anesthesia? ‌Local anesthetic drugs are used in three different ways: ‌Local application.You can apply local anesthetic ointment to open sores or mouth ulcers.

Exactly how these drugs cause the brain to lose consciousness has been a longstanding question, but MIT neuroscientists have now answered that question for one commonly used anesthesia drug.

This is especially important with trauma patients. “These drugs can tip somebody over the edge who is already close to the edge – we’d like to identify the basis for these side effects and see if we ...

The drugs may have an easier time overwhelming neurons in older adults because the proteins that anesthetic drugs are thought to target on the surface of neurons become less abundant with age.

When patients are put under anesthesia, they are often told they will be "put to sleep," and now it appears that in some ways that's exactly what the drugs do to the brain. New evidence in mice ...