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Several inches of the sword tip covered with an anaesthetic drug.

The anaesthetic drug had done its work.

Major painkillers and anaesthetic drugs can leave a baby drowsy, for example, which may interfere with feeding early on.

When that failed to kill them, they were allegedly injected with an anaesthetic drug and then a muscle relaxant.

Opioids and anaesthetic drugs tend to depress ventilation, especially with regards to carbon dioxide response.

Epidural - an anaesthetic drug is injected into the epidural space at the side of the spinal cord.

Spinal anaesthesia is a technique whereby a local anaesthetic drug is injected into the cerebrospinal fluid.

Thorough and accurate answering of the questions is important so that the anaesthetist can select the proper anaesthetic drugs and procedures.

Hospitals administer nitrous oxide as one of the anaesthetic drugs delivered by anaesthetic machines.

It is normal for blood pressure and pulse rates to fall due to the effect of anaesthetic drugs and gases on the cardiac and respiratory centres.

Hydroxydione proved to be a useful anaesthetic drug with a good safety profile, but was painful and irritating when injected probably due to poor water solubility.

It has found new uses later, including treatment of some types of neuropathic pain, opioid detoxification, sleep hyperhidrosis, and as veterinary anaesthetic drug.

The founding principle behind this theory is that the irregularity within an EEG signal decreases with increasing brain levels of anaesthetic drugs.

These were commonly used anaesthetic drugs when I began my specialist training; now they're a bit old-fashioned but I'm sure that they would be useful somewhere in the world...

Most anaesthetic drugs are detectable by entropy monitoring, a notable exception being nitrous oxide, in common with BIS monitoring.

A PATIENT who claimed she suffered severe brain damage from an allergic reaction to anaesthetic drugs was awarded interim damages of £50,000 yesterday.

Some preparations of the anaesthetic drugs propofol and etomidate (the vehicle for etomidate is propylene glycol) are supplied using Intralipid as a vehicle.

In general anaesthesia it is used as a carrier gas in a 2:1 ratio with oxygen for more powerful general anaesthetic drugs such as sevoflurane or desflurane.

A standard anaesthetic regimen, using isoflurane, was therefore used in all patients in order to standardise and minimise any potential effect of anaesthetic drugs on liver protein synthesis.

In addition to blocking the nerves which carry pain, local anaesthetic drugs in the epidural space will block other types of nerves as well, in a dose-dependent manner.

The only NMDA antagonist clinically available is the anaesthetic drug ketamine, but more useful agents with fewer undesirable effects on higher function are awaited with interest.

In a £500,000 damages action at the Court of Session, she had said that she had had a collapse after being injected with anaesthetic drugs in the operating theatre.

Weinberg et al. have published data indicating Intralipid is effective in treating experimental models of severe cardiotoxicity secondary to intravenous overdose of local anaesthetic drugs such as bupivacaine.

Etoxadrol (CL-1848C) is a dissociative anaesthetic drug that has been found to be an NMDA antagonist and produce similar effects to PCP in animals.

The Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon has started breathing independently after doctors reduced the inflow of anaesthetic drugs in an attempt to waken the prime minister from deep sedation.