A study of anesthesia journal clubs, a common feature of medical education, found that successful programs had mandatory attendance, involved residents in the organization and reviewed more articles ...

BJA: British Journal of Anaesthesia is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, of which it is the official journal ...

The letter includes a table that lists 88 articles for which Landesarztekammer Rheinland-Pfalz, the State Medical Association of Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, was unable to verify Institutional Review ...

Awareness during anesthesia is a serious complication with potential long-term psychological consequences. Use of the bispectral index (BIS), developed from a processed electroencephalogram, has been ...

Pain during childbirth is universal and its history is timeless. (Genesis 3:16 To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you will bring forth children;….) The ...

A multidisciplinary, international group of experts has recommended changing the way clinicians and patients describe cognitive changes experienced in some patients after anesthesia and surgery. The ...

Anesthesia elicits different patterns of brain waves in the very young and very old, scientists have found. Understanding these distinctions may ultimately lead to brain monitors that could make ...

The Association of Anaesthetists is honoured to award the Featherstone Professorship to Dr Matt Wiles, Consultant in ...

We share the concerns that Rappaport et al. express in their Perspective article in this issue of the Journal regarding possible relationships between anesthetic agents and neurologic damage in young ...

"Going under" for surgery might lead to future memory problems, but any effects appear to be small, a new study suggests. Middle-age adults who underwent surgery using general anesthesia performed ...

Kennedy RR, French RA (2014). A ten-year audit of fresh gas flows in a New Zealand hospital: the influence of the introduction of automated agent delivery and comparisons with other hospitals.