Objective: To investigate the risks and benefits of the use of local anaesthetic in a descriptive case series from three professional football (rugby league and Australian football) teams. Methods: ...

Anaesthesia means 'insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations', but how does it work and what are the ...

The technique puts patients in a 'sleepy' state - but doesn't render them unconscious TWILIGHT sedation is a medical term you may have heard of, but probably know little about. Here’s the lowdown on ...

Using local instead of general anaesthetic for hip, knee and other operations could help cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study. Drugs used for general anaesthetics contain greenhouse ...

A study led by Dr Bing Hu at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, and involving other researchers from China and Switzerland, suggests for the first time that the use of ...

Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have discovered a new mechanism by which substances can open a certain type of ion channel and thereby regulate nerve impulses. The study, published in the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The largest study ever into the impact of general anaesthetic on babies has found it is no more damaging to their brains than local ...