Bovine and equine general anesthesia.

Anesthesia of the geriatric equine

Comparison of neonatal and maternal outcomes after cesarean delivery with general anesthesia and spinal anesthesia

 Aims and background: The choice of anesthesia for cesarean section depends on factors such as the cause of the operation, the degree of urgency of the operation and the patient’s desire. Following the choice of any of the methods either general anesthesia or spinal anesthesia for mother and baby will have consequences. The aim of this study was to compare maternal and neonatal outcomes afte...

General anesthesia

As anyone who has looked at a petunia or a pansy can testify, plants generate flowers with characteristic numbers and patterns of organs. The floral organs are derived from a pool of stem cells called the floral meristem. In wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana flowers (shown at lower left) the meristem gives rise to four sepals that enclose the bud, four white petals, six pollen-bearing stamens and ...

General Anesthesia, Sleep, and Coma

From the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (E.N.B.); the MIT–Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (E.N.B.); the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (R.L.); and the D...

Anisocoria under general anesthesia with Propofol

Anisocoria during anesthesia is very rare, but may indicate life-threatening neurologic injuries and create tremendous condition. A 23-year-old male patient was anesthetized with fentanyl and propofol. Thirty minutes after inducing anesthesia, unilateral mydriasis was detected. The duration of surgery was shortened for prompt evaluation of the pupils. At the end of the operation neither vision ...