An anesthesiologist is a doctor who specializes in providing medications to make a patient unconscious or numb during surgery, so they don't feel pain. Full definition
Patients with advanced cancers who took a drug designed to relieve constipation caused by pain killers lived longer and had fewer reports of tumor progression than cancer patients who did not receive the drug, according to results presented Oct. 27 at the 2015 meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists in San Diego. (sciencedaily.com)
Almost every animal behavior studied in the lab, from the effectiveness of experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math, is affected by stress, notes Paul Flecknell, a veterinary anesthesiologist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who researches ways to alleviate pain in animals. (sciencemag.org)
AnimalScan's staff includes Kris Kruse - Elliott, a board - certified veterinary anesthesiologist who supervises anesthesia and is available to assist SAGE with complicated patient anesthesia and pain management. (sagecenters.com)