One of the concerns parents have if their baby needs surgery is whether the general anaesthetic will affect the child's developing brain. New research finds it won't.
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Doctors may say you're "too old" for surgery, but what they actually mean is too frail.
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After the tragic death of a young woman undergoing a cosmetic procedure, people are rightly asking who should be able to administer anaesthetics.
At higher doses ketamine is used to induce a trance-like state, sedate people with burns or other traumatic injuries, or as an anaesthetic to perform short operations.
Some people can feel drowsy or can't concentrate days after an operation. While it's easy to blame the anaesthetics, the real picture is usually more complicated.
Terrifying accounts of surgery 200 years ago remind us how far general anaesthesia has come. Yet we still know little about how anaesthetics alter consciousness.
Epidurals were developed for pregnant women to address the severe pain of labour. In Australia approximately one in three pregnant women in labour has an epidural for pain relief.
Measuring certain kinds of brain activity may help doctors track and predict how patients will react to anaesthesia before going under for surgery, our research has found.
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
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Honorary professorial fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Scientist, University of Oxford
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Professor of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery; Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, University of Michigan
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Professor of wildlife population health, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
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Consultant Neurologist & Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in eHealth, University of Kent
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Associate Professor MBBS, PhD, MPH, PGDipEcho, FANZCA, University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer, University of Wollongong
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Head, School of Pharmacy, University of Bradford
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Assistant Professor of Design and Robotics, Trinity College Dublin
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Professor, Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Honorary Fellow, Anaesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Unit, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne
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Clinical Lecturer, Anaesthetist, University of Melbourne
