The Food and Drug Administration this week announced that it was requiring new warnings about the repeated or lengthy use of general anesthesia and sedative drugs in pregnant women and children under ...

Continuous exposure to high levels of waste anesthetic gas (WAG) poses risks to human health 1,2, leading the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to advise that WAG be scavenged to ...

Intravenous (i.v.) anesthetics include etomidate, midazolam, propofol, thiopental, ketamine, and opioid agonists. The first four agents act by enhancing the activity of the inhibitory neurotransmitter ...

Carrying out invasive procedures in animals requires the administration of anesthesia. Xenon gas offers advantages as an anesthetic agent compared with other agents, such as its protection of the ...