May 26, 2010 — Editor's note: Accurately identifying and appropriately addressing sources of agitation and pain are essential elements of good anesthesia practice in critical care units, according to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The demand for increased efficiency and decreased hospital stay has magnified the role of anesthesia and acute ...

Objectives: This review will focus on the pharmacokinetics (with an emphasis on the context-sensitive half-time), pharmacodynamics, and hemodynamic characteristics of the most commonly used ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

Routine administration of sedation and opioid analgesia at the beginning of transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces the incidence of radial spasm, improving procedure-related ...

This book is an American text covering the practice of sedation and analgesia. It is primarily aimed at the non-anaesthetist sedation practitioner, covering a wide range of medical specialties. The ...

Anesthesia and analgesia should be provided to ferrets that are undergoing potentially painful surgical procedures. The epidural route of administration for anesthetic or analgesic drugs can be used.

Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are treated with many interventions (most notably endotracheal intubation and invasive mechanical ventilation) that are observed or perceived to be distressing.

Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to concerns about the effects that general anesthesia may have on newborns during ...

If you haven’t read part one of this two-part article, I suggest reading it now to glean the full scope of its message as it applies to part two. Comfort for the patient during dental procedures is ...

MONTRÉAL (Québec), Canada – August 7, 2013 – gIcare Pharma Inc today announced the initiation of a phase 2a study of GIC-1001, a novel orally-administered opioid agonist drug candidate to provide ...

Here are 10 recent studies on anesthesia quality issues, according to reports from various publications and organizations. 1. Regular training sessions could prevent anesthesia awareness. According to ...