Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ST. LOUIS — The planned use of a common anesthetic in a Missouri execution is raising concerns that the anti-death penalty European Union could limit export ...

Propofol, a short-acting, intravenous hypnotic agent was introduced in the 1980s to aid surgery centers in providing appropriate anesthesia for short procedures. The drug allows a patient to undergo a ...

A study, published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, examined factors related to nurse-administered propofol sedation in 9,152 endoscopic cases at ASCs. With an anesthesiologist’s ...

It remains the most widely used anesthetic in U.S. hospitals, but many patients still remember propofol as the drug that killed Michael Jackson. Most are no longer afraid of it, doctors say, though ...

The way we experience the present is largely influenced by our memories of the past. Some memories help us navigate the world around us, while others can make life more difficult and uncomfortable.

Robert Goldstein, MD, is executive vice president and chief medical officer of Somnia Anesthesia Services.Q: What are some of the ways the growing propofol shortage could impact an ASC’s operations ...

Cardiac dysfunction is reported to occur after severe perinatal asphyxia. We hypothesized that anesthesia of the mother with propofol during emergency cesarean section (c-section) would result in less ...

Researchers for the first time have identified the site where the widely used anesthetic drug propofol binds to receptors in the brain to sedate patients during surgery. Researchers at Washington ...

Propofol is the most commonly used drug to induce general anesthesia. Despite its frequent clinical application, it is poorly understood how propofol causes anesthesia. Propofol is the most commonly ...

Orexinergic neurons are inhibited by propofol anesthesia and the orexin signals are involved in arousal regulation from propofol, according to an article in Anesthesia & Analgesia. Previous studies ...

This is the first prospective observational cost-effectiveness analysis comparing a regimen using propofol with one using an inhaled anesthetic agent for maintenance. We included measurements and cost ...