First author Jiafa Zeng pushes the breath from the sample bag into a mass spectrometer to analyze the metabolites in the exhaled air. Not too much and not too little: the dosage of drugs must be ...

New guidelines from the American Society of Anesthesiologists, which went into effect July 1, call for anesthesiologists to monitor exhaled carbon dioxide in lower levels of sedation than was ...

A spectrophotometric hemoglobin sensor may help providers monitor blood hemoglobin levels noninvasively during surgery, according to a report published in the April 2011 issue of Anesthesia & ...

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Abstract: Fear, dread, panic, and, less commonly, excruciating pain accompany unintended awareness during general anesthesia. No clinical device is currently available to reliably measure the depth of ...

In broad estimates, anesthesia-related mortality today is often cited around one in 100,000 to one in 200,000 cases. And for healthy patients undergoing routine procedures, some sources like the ...

In this video, anesthesiology resident Max Feinstein, MD, walks us through a simulation of general anesthesia induction. Following is a transcript of the video; note that errors are possible.

Intra-operative monitoring of the surgical patient is important to the evaluation of the status of anesthetized animals. Beyond the obvious value of knowing the anesthetic plane of the patient, the ...