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...
Read MoreAfPP 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...
Read MoreFurther 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...
Read MoreSex bias in pain research
It is increasingly clear that male and female humans and rodents process pain in different ways. And that there are...
Read MoreNovel 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...
Read MoreAnaesthesia’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...
Read MoreSpider venom key to pain relief without side-effects
Molecules in tarantula venom could be used as an alternative to opioid pain killers for people seeking chronic pain relief....
Read MoreAnaesthetists on the front lines of treating COVID-19 patients
A recent study examined the knowledge and attitudes of anaesthetists regarding the strategies used to treat suspected or confirmed COVID-19...
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