Alzheimer's alarm over anesthetics
...be and animal experiments. They also indicate that anaesthetists need to log more carefully the combinations and doses of the anaesthetics they give to patients, to allow the risks to be properly assessed. The link between surgery and cognitive problems was first noted during the 1950s, but it was never clear whe...Anaesthetists need urgent guidance on patients who don't want to be resuscitated
UK anaesthetists could face accusations of euthanasia or assisted s...ciples involved is needed to decide how individual anaesthetists and anaesthetic departments in the UK should manage this situation" conclude the authors. "Dr Mc...Now is a pivotal point in history to abolish state execution
...moment when individuals, like Judge Fogel, and the anaesthetists who refused to participate, have given voice to their conscience. They have articulated the concerns of an increasing number of Americans, whose support for capital punishment has dropped from 80% to 64% in the past decade. It is a voice to be heeded...54 per cent of air passengers experience significant reduction in oxygen levels
...eir oxygen saturation levels measured by qualified anaesthetists on the ground and at cruising altitude. Ground levels averaged 97 per cent and these fell to an average of 93 per cent at altitude. "We believe that these falling oxygen levels, together with factors such as dehydration, immobility and low humidi...