To evaluate the safety and efficacy of propofol sedation combined with sub-Tenon's anaesthesia for strabismus surgery in adults. Thirty-two consecutive patients aged 31–85 years underwent strabismus ...

Older patients who received anesthesia with etomidate had no higher risk of major complications after elective abdominal surgery compared to propofol, a randomized trial found. Among 1,917 such ...

Australian experts say the powerful anaesthetic drug that contributed to Michael Jackson's death, Propofol, is used in nearly every patient having surgery under general anaesthesia in Australia and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published results showed use of virtual reality immersion during hand surgery may reduce intraoperative propofol ...

Propofol is one of the most used drugs for general anesthesia, but the findings of a new study suggest that the medication may also be beneficial for conscious sedation. Researchers from the U.K.

This multicenter, observational study was conducted in collaboration with the Critical Care Pharmacotherapy Trials Network (CCPTN). Recruitment of study sites for this multicenter study occurred via ...

Patients undergoing operations while awake will soon be able to put themselves to sleep at just the touch of a button. They can now control their own doses of propofol - a fast-acting general ...

Anesthesia may be an exact science, but it's not yet fully personalized. Anesthesiologists use a variety of methods to calculate the right dose for a given patient: clinical studies, medical databases ...

Lindsay Lohan's sobriety was threatened during her OWN reality show when she damaged a dental veneer--and doctors decided to give her a cocktail of drugs, including propofol, to sedate her during ...

A national recall of two batches of the most widely-used anaesthesia drug probably won't affect scheduled surgery, doctors say. The Therapeutic Goods Administration alerted public and private ...