20 August 2020

Fujifilm Sonosite launches new point-of-care ultrasound system with adaptable form factor

FUJIFILM Sonosite, Inc., specialists in developing cutting-edge point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) solutions, and part of the larger Fujifilm Healthcare portfolio, has announced the...

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18 August 2020

Lego builds anaesthesia skills according to new study

Lego could be used as a practical tool to train doctors in anaesthetic skills according to new research that has...

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13 August 2020

How do we disconnect from the environment during sleep and under anaesthesia?

During sleep and under anaesthesia, we rarely respond to such external stimuli as sounds, even though our brains remain highly...

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11 August 2020

AfPP enters partnership with online mental health and wellbeing service to provide its members with support

The Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP) has gone into partnership with Big White Wall, an online mental health and wellbeing...

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4 August 2020

Further evidence does not support hydroxychloroquine for patients with COVID-19

The anti-inflammatory drug hydroxychloroquine does not significantly reduce admission to intensive care or death in patients hospitalised with pneumonia due...

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30 July 2020

Sex bias in pain research

It is increasingly clear that male and female humans and rodents process pain in different ways. And that there are...

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28 July 2020

Novel electric impulses relieve the pain

Chronic pain can be reduced by stimulating the vagus nerve in the ear with electrodes. In a microanatomic study, the...

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23 July 2020

Anaesthesia’s effect on consciousness solved

Surgery would be inconceivable without general anaesthesia, so it may come as a surprise that despite its 175-year history of...

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