BJA: British Journal of Anaesthesia is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, of which it is the official journal ...

IN INFANTS and children the technic of induction of anesthesia demands careful consideration, if optimal results are to be obtained. The success of the induction depends upon several factors, one of ...

Pain during childbirth is universal and its history is timeless. (Genesis 3:16 To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you will bring forth children;….) The ...

Anesthesia is not an area of medicine most folks profess to understand. As one anesthesiologist put it: “The lay public has the notion that we knock people on the head and they go to sleep, and then ...

Gildasio S. De Oliveira Jr., MD, has been named editor-in-chief of Ambulatory Anesthesia, an international, peer-reviewed open access journal. The journal will focus on all aspects of ambulatory ...

Pre-eclampsia, the potentially deadly condition that affects pregnant women, may be caused by problems meeting the oxygen demands of the growing fetus, according to an editorial in the November issue ...

Brian D. Sites, MD, will become the next editor-in-chief of Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine. 1. Dr. Sites will replace Marc Huntoon, MD, who is retiring at the end of the year after more than a ...

We share the concerns that Rappaport et al. express in their Perspective article in this issue of the Journal regarding possible relationships between anesthetic agents and neurologic damage in young ...

"Going under" for surgery might lead to future memory problems, but any effects appear to be small, a new study suggests. Middle-age adults who underwent surgery using general anesthesia performed ...

Kennedy RR, French RA (2014). A ten-year audit of fresh gas flows in a New Zealand hospital: the influence of the introduction of automated agent delivery and comparisons with other hospitals.

New research supports earlier findings that indicate that anesthesia is no more hazardous for the brain at higher doses than at lower doses. General anesthesia makes it possible for millions of ...