Now in its fourth edition, Analgesia, Anaesthesia and Pregnancy is a concise guide to obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia. This essential text reviews every topic and clinical challenge faced during ...

A new study has identified a specific brain pathway that could explain how positive expectations of relief reduce pain, even ...

Upper abdominal surgical incisions result in significant pain during and after surgery. While neuraxial techniques are the ...

Recent advances on the management and treatment of heart disease in veterinary medicine often necessitate procedures of increased complexity to be performed under anaesthesia. Interventional ...

Depending on the location of the catheter, epidural analgesia can be used to help relieve pain associated with chest, abdominal, and lower extremity surgery. A member of the anesthesiology team will ...

Use sedating medications, such as hypnotics or sedatives. Patients in these categories may require another form of pain management or careful monitoring for respiratory effects. All PCA pumps ...

Controversies in Obstetric Anesthesia and Analgesia debates these and other clinical management controversies encountered in daily practice, providing practical advice on how to manage each clinical ...

By contrast, results were obtained indicating that the TRPA1 cool-sensitive ion channel is unlikely to have a role in analgesia. The TRPM8 activators were needed at very low concentrations ...

An analgesia machine is a device used to administer a light inhalation anesthetic to sedate patients and relieve their sensitivity to pain but without causing an actual loss of consciousness.

Team anaesthesia focusses its research in several different areas, including human accuracy/precision, loco-regional techniques, airway management, and predictors of hypotension. Most research is ...