Giving birth is no laughing matter, but the gas seems to help. — -- A Minneapolis mom who wanted a natural birth was more than 13 hours into labor when she felt she wasn't going to make it ...

Many hospitals and health systems have begun cutting the use of certain inhaled anesthetics due to their greenhouse gas emissions, and a teaching hospital in Europe recently found a potential ...

Teleflex has launched The Invisible Risk Campaign to educate anesthesiologists and clinicians on the dangers of waste anesthetic gas exposure in post-anesthesia care units, according to the Fort Mill ...

General anesthesia is given during surgery to make people unconscious, eliminate pain during the procedure and prevent reflex movements. Many factors are known to impact how anesthesia affects a given ...

An analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from volatile anesthetic agents across 41 countries showed that Western nations have achieved significant reductions, but Asian countries continue to increase ...

Can women with low platelet counts safely undergo epidural/spinal anesthesia during labor? Available evidence suggests a low rate of complications related to abnormal blood clotting for this large ...

Unlike most other drugs, chart review is not particularly useful for determining the amount of an inhaled anesthetic administered during a particular case because it is impossible to determine ...