Antibiotics are powerful medications that fight bacterial infections by either killing bacteria or keeping them from reproducing.1 Some well-known bacterial ...

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide.1 Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year ...

Obese patients are becoming more commonplace in the operating room with each passing year. By the year 2030, an estimated ...

Complex surgical procedures, innovative anesthetic techniques and the need to protect a patient’s airways contribute to the requirement for mechanical ...

Among health professionals, it is common knowledge that children are “not just little adults.”1 Children have anxieties,2 anatomies3 and pathologies4 ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a general term for a group of heterogenous disorders affecting kidney structure and function.1 CKD ...

Achieving a smooth and rapid emergence from general anesthesia is a primary goal in all surgical cases. Previously, it was ...

A growing body of evidence suggests that neuroinflammation plays a role in the development of neurodegeneration in patients with Alzheimer’s ...

The implementation of new debt-free scholarship programs in four top-tier medical schools could have a tremendous impact on the future ...

Peripheral nerve injury (PNI) after peripheral nerve block (PNB) is usually temporary, lasting a few days to weeks.1 According to ...

Local anesthetics are frequently used in the practice of anesthesia and many other areas of medicine as a method to ...

Anesthetic complications in plastic surgery are generally rare, but potentially catastrophic. Thus, maintaining patient safety in the operating room is ...