Anesthesia prevents pain during procedures by numbing you or putting you into a sleep-like state. Though considered very safe, it can cause side effects like nausea, chills, aches, and sleepiness.

Characteristics of the ideal inhaled anesthetic agent include ample potency, low solubility in blood and tissues, resistance to physical and metabolic degradation, and a protective effect in and ...

The costs of preparation and wasted drug are minimal for inhaled anesthetics and the costs of adverse effects and treatment failures are difficult to quantify. Therefore, these costs usually are ...

Inhaled anesthetic use was popularized during the COVID-19 sedative shortages, and interest persisted due to an association with reduced sedative and analgesic needs, the research ...