Director of anaesthetics

Deputy Director

Report of the Director

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Climate effect of inhaled anaesthetics.

Almost all areas of human activity have the potential to influence climate. The administration of inhalation anaesthetics is one such activity. However, since the first dedicated study in 1989 of the possible role of halogenated anaesthetics, they have received only sporadic interest. Two recent papers, published in this issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia and in Anesthesia and Analgesi...

ANAESTHETiCS’ PHySiologiCAl mECHANiSmS

The topic may be approached by defining the concept of anaesthesia, a term introduced by Oliver Wendell Holmes for defining the elimination of surgical pain, characterised by immobility, eliminating pain, amnesia and lack of consciousness, effects provoked by using anaesthetic agents reversibly affecting different areas of the central nervous system (CNS). These conditions were successfully met...

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