Omega-3 offers hope for new anti-breast cancer drugs
... oily fish, could be combined with a commonly used anesthetic to develop drugs to treat breast cancer, according to research published today in the journal Breast Cancer Research. Compounds of Omega-3 fatty acids and propofol reduce the ability of breast cancer cells to develop into malignant tumours, inhibitin...Tiny worms paving way for better anesthetics
...make patients more or less susceptible to a common anesthetic agent have been identified by researchers using ti...nta. "The principal question is how can we design anesthetic drugs that have the desired effect of rendering a patient unconscious during surgery without affecti...New class of drug reduces post-operative vomiting
...des of advances in surgical technique and improved anesthetic agents, one out of three patients will still experience nausea and vomiting after surgery. These events not only influence patient satisfaction with their procedure, but can also prolong recovery, lengthen hospital stays and negatively impact the sur...Patients receiving supplemental oxygen during surgery have reduced risk of wound infection
...ctober 31, 2004. Baseline patient characteristics, anesthetic treatment, and potential confounding factors were recorded. Patients were randomly assigned to an oxygen/air mixture with a fraction (concentration) of inspired oxygen (Fio2) of 30 percent or 80 percent intraoperatively and for 6 hours after surgery....Epidural leads to less pain, more assisted deliveries
...rth. Epidural analgesia involves injecting a local anesthetic into the lower back to block pain impulses from the uterus and birth canal. Obstetricians introduced the technique in 1946, and 58 percent of American women now choose this form of pain relief during childbirth, according to the authors. The review ...Ninety-six percent of minimally invasive knee replacement patients leave same day, no complication
.... New clinical pathways, including improvements in anesthetic techniques, postoperative pain management, and rehabilitation protocols, will make performing outpatient TKA a realistic goal. This comprehensive pathway may make it possible for this minimally invasive knee surgery to be done as an outpatient in spe...Point-of-care test proves more effective for recurrent bladder cancer than conventional lab test
... walls of the bladder. It is performed under local anesthetic in a doctor's office. The combination of the NMP22 assay with cystoscopy significantly increased the overall detection rate to 99 percent, compared with 91 percent for cystoscopy alone. Urine cytology combined with cystoscopy only increased detectio...Imaging changes treatment for lower back pain
...n the spine and is commonly treated by steroid and anesthetic injections to the small joints of the spine called the facet joints. "Facet joint injections can be a good short-term treatment alternative in some patients, but these injections don't help all patients, are relatively expensive and can cause complic...New mouthwash helps with pain linked to head and neck cancer
...ght to discover if a mouthwash made from the local anesthetic tetracaine was able to alleviate the discomfort associated with head and neck cancer and if there would be any negative side effects of the mouthwash. The doctors chose to concoct a tetracaine-based mouthwash instead of a lidocaine-based version beca...Electroconvulsive therapy improves quality of life for at least six months
...ister ECT after the patient has been given both an anesthetic and a muscle relaxant. Before the ECT treatment, the authors said, health-related quality of life was very low. The team measured quality of life with a tool called Medical Outcomes Study Short Form before ECT, several days after ECT, and again 24 w...Minimally invasive approach can take the pain out of herniated disks
... doctors inject inflammation-reducing steroids and anesthetic as a more short-term solution to pain. It's less i...try the approach of locally injecting steroids and anesthetic to see if that relieves pain. He notes that some patients experience long-term relief from just the ...U. Iowa research improves health care delivery for children
...fact that these scans often are done under general anesthetic to ensure that young children remain motionless an...s, efforts aimed at improving scheduling for these anesthetic procedures uncovered unexpected and fundamental problems in predicting case durations. UI researcher...Doctors treating pain from circumcision more seriously
...ases pain sensation prior to circumcision. Topical anesthetic creams are less effective but they are safe and do provide some pain relief. Any of these techniques can be used in combination with the Mogen clamp, the Gomco clamp and the Pastibell method, the three most common surgical methods of circumcision. ...Study suggests anesthetic agent may have rapid antidepressant effects
...on of a drug known as ketamine, which is a general anesthetic agent, may relieve symptoms of depression within two hours and remain effective for up to one week, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The discovery of antidepressant medi...Experimental medication kicks depression in hours instead of weeks
...e, a medication usually used in higher doses as an anesthetic in humans and animals, in a preliminary study. Current antidepressants routinely take eight weeks or more to exert their effect in treatment-resistant patients and four to six weeks in more responsive patients a major drawback of these medications. ...Mayo Clinic finds what causes men pain in prostate biopsy and best method to alleviate it
...r some men during in-office prostate biopsy and an anesthetic method that can best lessen it. Findings will be p...r pain control during a prostate biopsy than other anesthetic methods. "The prostate biopsy likely will never be a completely painless procedure, but it should...Clinical trial shows islet transplantation is a promising procedure
...major surgery that carries associated surgical and anesthetic risks. Even without complications, it requires several weeks of recovery at home. In addition, a transplant recipient must stay on immunosuppressive drugs to prevent rejection of the transplanted pancreas. These drugs can have serious side effects, s...OHSU findings may improve how people with chronic heartburn, precancer of the esophagus are screened
...es not require sedation. Patients inhale a topical anesthetic that numbs their nasal passages and throat. The clinician then passes a smaller-caliber endoscope, 4.9 mm in diameter, through the nose, pharynx and throat. The cost for this procedure is in the hundreds of dollars. Only a handful of centers in the ...Dental researchers test no-needle anesthesia, no-drilling cavity care
...he effectiveness in dental procedures of a topical anesthetic normally used by ear, nose and throat physicians w...y operate on the nose. Patients who received this anesthetic for that purpose reported it also numbed their upper teeth, sparking interest in using it for dental...Common anesthetic may induce cell death, generation of Alzheimer's-associated protein
...in. Previous studies have shown that applying the anesthetic isoflurane to cultured neural cells can lead to ge...ther the findings reflect a possible effect of the anesthetic on human brains. "Our studies have shown that isoflurane may induce a vicious cycle of apoptosis,...