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Ask Smithsonian: How Does Anesthesia Work?

A modern medical mystery




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Women on Medicaid Less Likely to Receive Regional Anesthesia

Minorities and women enrolled in Medicaid program are less likely to receive regional anesthesia techniques. The study of more than 56,000 patients




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Sliding track and pivot mounting system for displays on anesthesia machines

An anesthesia workstation includes a sliding track system attached to the front of the anesthesia workstation for the mounting of one or more displays. The displays are horizontally slidable along the front of the anesthesia workstation along the sliding track. In addition, the sliding track system includes pivot points which enable outward pivoting of the displays up to 90 degrees. Sliding and pivoting of the displays is possible both independently and simultaneously. The sliding track system allows the anesthetist to slide and pivot the displays across the front of the workstation along the length of the track to the most preferable viewing position. Additional storage space is positioned within the anesthesia workstation behind the displays and becomes exposed and accessible when the displays are manipulated via the sliding track system.




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METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ANESTHESIA APPARATUS, ANESTHESIA APPARATUS OPERATING ACCORDING TO THE METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD

A method and a control program for operating an anesthesia apparatus, as well as an anesthesia apparatus (12), which operates according to the method are provided. The anesthesia apparatus includes a breathing gas feed unit (22) intended for displacing a breathing gas volume in a breathing circuit (10). A piston (23) brings about the displacement of the breathing gas. Switching over between a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation during the return of the piston (23) allows for a presetting of a corresponding piston return velocity. The piston return velocity depends on a volume flow in an exhalation branch (34) of the breathing circuit (10) in the first mode of operation. The piston return velocity depends on a minimally necessary piston return velocity in the second mode of operation.




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Does general anesthesia affect neurodevelopment in infants and children?




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Counting backwards : a doctor's notes on anesthesia / Henry Jay Przybylo, MD.

Przybylo, Henry Jay.




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Long-term Differences in Language and Cognitive Function After Childhood Exposure to Anesthesia

Immature animals exposed to anesthetics display apoptotic neurodegeneration and long-term cognitive deficiencies. In children, studies of cognitive deficits associated with anesthesia exposure have yielded mixed results. No studies to date have used directly administered neuropsychological assessments as outcome measures.

This study examines the association between exposure to anesthesia in children under age 3 and deficits at age 10 by using a battery of directly administered neuropsychological assessments, with deficits found in language and abstract reasoning associated with exposure. (Read the full article)




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Cognition and Brain Structure Following Early Childhood Surgery With Anesthesia

Permanent neuronal deletion and neurocognitive impairment after anesthetic exposure in animals raised substantial concern that similar effects occur in children. Human studies were equivocal but have not combined structural and intelligence tests in otherwise healthy children after childhood anesthesia.

Anesthetic exposure for surgery did not lead to measurable neuronal elimination in brain regions previously identified in animals. However, language comprehension and performance IQ were decreased in exposed children and associated with decreased gray matter, primarily in posterior brain regions. (Read the full article)




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General Anesthesia Not Linked to Raised Risk for Dementia

Title: General Anesthesia Not Linked to Raised Risk for Dementia
Category: Health News
Created: 5/1/2013 12:35:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 5/2/2013 12:00:00 AM




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How Dangerous Is General Anesthesia?

Title: How Dangerous Is General Anesthesia?
Category: Procedures and Tests
Created: 3/5/2020 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/7/2020 12:00:00 AM




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National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Plans Supporting the Vision of Universal Health Coverage




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Scientists Revealed How General Anesthesia Works

How isoflurane weakens the transmission of electrical signals between neurons at junctions called synapses is revealed in study published in the iJournal




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Obstetric anesthesia: a case-based and visual approach / Thomas L. Archer, editor

Online Resource




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Utilization of Anesthesia Services During Outpatient Endoscopies and Colonoscopies and Associated Spending in 2003-2009

Interview with Soeren Mattke, MD, DSc, author of Utilization of Anesthesia Services During Outpatient Endoscopies and Colonoscopies and Associated Spending in 2003-2009




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Nurse exposure to waste anesthetic gases in a post anesthesia care unit




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Differential effects of isoflurane and propofol anesthesia on neurogenesis in young and aged rats