How does regional anesthesia (epidural or combined spinal-epidural) affect childbirth outcomes?Evidence-Based PracticeMusaCollin;HildebrandAshley
How long the conscious sedation lasts depends on the drugs administered — it may be as few as five or 10 minutes or as long as an hour. Recovery is speedy, and you won't usually have the side effects associated with general anesthesia, such as vomiting, nausea or dizziness (although the...
the central nervous system, were found to be an anaesthetic target of many general anaesthetics. On the other hand, ketamine is a well-known N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist (Franks2006;2008). However, some general anaesthetics may affect proteins indirectly through the plasma memb...
Unlike most amnesia cases in which older memories are preserved, much of Wearing's long-term episodic memory of specific facts and events disappeared. His motor skills and general intelligence remain intact; it's the memory of using them that's disconnected. For instance, Wearing still plays the...
Previous studies of how anesthesia drugs affect this balance have found conflicting results: Some suggested that during anesthesia, the brain shifts toward becoming too stable and unresponsive, which leads to loss of consciousness. Others found that the brain becomes too excitable, leading to a chaoti...
Unlike general anesthesia, coming out of an artificial coma does not generally take between 2 and 24 hours as the patient is often unconscious for several days to months and becomes physically dependent on sedatives. Drug Withdrawal and Early Responses. The physician will slowly wean the patient...
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We developed EmergenCSim™, a serious game (SG) with an embedded assessment, to teach and assess performing general anesthesia for cesarean delivery. We hypothesized that first-year anesthesiology trainees (CA-1) playing EmergenCSim™ would yield superior knowledge scores versus controls, and Emerg...
When reviewing the findings of the above studies, it is easy to conclude that it takes somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes, and sometimes as long as 15 minutes, for a tooth to become numb. In fact, a study by Zain confirms this estimate, stating that it based its anesthesia protocol (fo...
Sometimes, the general anesthesia drugs used to sedate you for surgery can cause hiccups. Other drugs that can cause ongoing hiccups include: Azithromycin (brand name Zithromax), which is an antibiotic Dexamethasone, a corticosteroid used to treat skin, joint, and lung inflammation as well as cond...